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Does the EVE Client have domain names for the assosiated IP's
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Etheoma
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2015-12-03 23:23:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Etheoma
I found the IP's but I'm using a VPN but I don't want the EVE client to go throw it but I need domain names not IP addresses unfortunately for the included software, I'm not sure that connecting to EVE through a VPN isn't against the EULA anyways so I definitely don't want to do that.

So yeah if the IP's associated with the clients have a domain name it would be great to know them, and its not just the fact that I am unsure whether or not its against the EULA its because while my VPN actually has a very decent board-width but the latency would be horrific considering the endpoint of the VPN is in the US and I'm in the UK and TQ is in Island also the encryption and decryption on each side would also add latency, further more if my VPN service is a good one it will take routes that are not monitored if possible so it will take a longer route theoretically than even just bouncing traffic off a US server back to Island.

So yeah all that added together whether its against the EULA or not is not really important to me as I don't even want to do it in the first place.
Kal'Han
Kador Trade Company
#2 - 2015-12-04 01:07:37 UTC
using a VPN has nothing to do with Eve online EULA. here are the banable offenses
http://community.eveonline.com/support/policies/eve-banning-policy/
here are the third party software forbidden
http://community.eveonline.com/support/policies/third-party-policies/
And here is the list of all the legal stuff
http://community.eveonline.com/support/policies/ (most which are non legal, non enforcable in most european countries but that's not the point)


but for your question, if you dig around, you'll find TQ server is 87.237.38.200, and other eve servers are in the 87.237.38.xxx range

" 87.237.38.0/23 " is owned by ccp and is called something like london gaming cluster

(simple whois IP on some site web, you'll get a name and some contact info like any other internet stuff)

but no ReverseDNS worked, so I guess they didn't publish a pubic dns to play with, digging around you'll get hosting information for the DNS "eveonline.com" that is hosted at dynect.net, and resolve IP in the range I gave above.

(again a simple nslookup gives you that)


and anyway, even if there were DNS record you can be pretty sure that the client is not using them: they use the IP directly from some config files, so knowing DNS names would amount to nothing


So if you want to make sure your computer does not uses the VPN for EVE, make sure you don't route 87.237.38.0/23 network through the vpn, that's 255.255.254.0 for network mask.
a vpn needing "DNS name" is probably something that is not really a real VPN but some service on a website calling itself a VPN and promising you better interwebz gaming. simply find another service with better config option, or make a real vpn (but that's highly complicated and need real networking skillz)
Kal'Han
Kador Trade Company
#3 - 2015-12-04 01:54:04 UTC
the following is simple digging through standard windows command and google, no network paquet has been analyzed and it's all public records.
also it has absolutely nothing to do with OP problem (sorry Etheoma)

I didn't look hard enough I forgot to nslookup the PTR and look a bit harder on google (like the 4rth link you never think to clic)
some random lookup site gives me "srv200-g.ccp.cc" for, ccp.cc may be you dns name. (but as I said above, the game does not uses hostname, but IP directly, and replace 200 by any number it will match the last byte of the ip)

I'd like to see the "CCP.CC" dns zone somewhere else but the only reference I have is there http://87.237.38.200.ipaddress.com/ and no source on a public dns for where the name comes from. old information from 1999?

some other information gives me a spanish mobile/internet company called "Jazztel.es" they are the owners of the reverse lookup of zone for CCP ip address

using a command line, open nslookup, next type "set type=PTR" and type "200.38.237.87.in-addr.arpa"
this should give you "200.38.217.87.dynamic.jazztel.es"
do the same with "set type=ns" and retype the 200...
it gives you the server managing the zone : dns.jazztel.es

usually (at least in the cases I know because i work in this field) i own some AS (public ip pool let's say) and I host clients. they install web services, mail servers etc... and they publish the IP I sell them on Registrar, public dns or my dns. but ALL the reverse ip for my AS is managed by the physical hoster I bought the AS from and giving me access to the internet through huge cable. if a client need to set up a mail server I get to ask my hoster to setup a nice PTR name for him.


Unless ccp in iceland bought ISP in a UK datacenter from a Spanish telecom who is so bad as what they do they failed their own website (lol.) I think there may be some problem of DNS zone owner somewhere

and if ccp is really using jazztel which may be present in london, well then there is no problem, and the "ccp.cc" are working but not set up as the correct PTR for the ip addresses

oh all of that is of course useless information as PTR is never used on internet except for email traffic, and ip could answer the name of popespc.vatican.it and it would still work.

Gratz if you followed all that, I kind of got lost somewhere.

TL;DR
don't use "vpn" that are dns based.