I think that's the domain name of the host from which you logged in. This is the name of one of our hosts from our ISP's point of view: dC9D03164.dslam-01-15-4-01-1-01.ISPs.domain On 12/26/05, Robb Bossley <robb.bossley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Hope you all had a great Christmas! > > I am running Linux-2.6.14.3 with iptables 1.3.4. It has been working > marvelously for me, but I noticed an unusual entry in my "last" log. > I believe it was from me logging on from a friend's computer, but the > entry was not the typical xx.xxx.xxx.xxx entry. The entry I saw was > "cpe-24-210-31-27". Why is this notation different, and what would > have been the ip? 24.210.31.27? > > TIA > > Robb > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list > LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc >