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wolverine04
Aspirant
Aug 24, 2017

Nighthawk AC1900 C7000 domain name from rr.com

I noticed that my cable modem / router is holding xxx.rr.com as a domain name. Although I have no domain name information placed on the router, but it is still showing up in my domain name suffix inf...
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wolverine04
Aspirant
Aug 24, 2017

VKDelta -

Thanks for the reply. I realize that the ISP would provide a domain name, but I do not see where it is populated on the AC1900. I do not have any domain name listed on the device in the WAN section. Where else could it be located?

 

Thanks,

Wolverine04

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vkdelta
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Aug 25, 2017

I dont think it is populated anywhere on the device. 

 

I normally see it on traceroute. for example to a comcast device, it has following domain name "c-73-202-176-49.hsd1.ca.comcast.net"

 

C:\Users\test>tracert 73.202.176.49

Tracing route to c-73-202-176-49.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [73.202.176.49]
over a maximum of 30 hops: