Weird sign-in problems

I just looked, and I can tell you that 50.23.231.98 is the IP Address for LumberJocks.com, so you’re not going anywhere nefarious. An IP trace and reverse lookup report about: 50.23.231.98 says that “this IP is currently linked to a server at SoftLayer”, and another says that “Lumberjocks.com is currently hosted at SoftLayer.” Which is physically located in Dallas, United States if you were interested.

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> nslookup 50.23.231.98-static.reverse.softlayer.com
Name: 50.23.231.98-static.reverse.softlayer.com
Address: 50.23.231.98

> nslookup lumberjocks.com
Name: lumberjocks.com
Address: 50.23.231.98

Same place – different name. Typical with providers (like SoftLayer). Just for grins, do a reverse lookup on that IP address and you get a completely different name :)

> nslookup 50.23.231.98
98.231.23.50.in-addr.arpa name = 62.e7.1732.ip4.static.sl-reverse.com.

> whois 50.23.231.98
NetRange: 50.22.0.0 – 50.23.255.255
CIDR: 50.22.0.0/15
NetName: SOFTLAYER-4-9
NetHandle: NET-50-22-0-0-1
Parent: NET50 (NET-50-0-0-0-0)
NetType: Direct Allocation
OriginAS: AS36351
Organization: SoftLayer Technologies Inc. (SOFTL)
[...]

No worries – just fun DNS games.

Cheers,
Brad

-- Brad in FL - In Dog I trust... everything else is questionable

Weird things like that happen to me occasionally. I’ve reported it to Cricket but it usually clears up before they can do anything.

-- Rick M, http://thewoodknack.blogspot.com/

Thanks, I’ll sleep well tonight. ;-)

-- My mother said that anyone learning to cook needed a large dog to eat the mistakes. As a sculptor of wood I have always tried to keep a fireplace. (Norman Ridenour)

Wow, that is over my head. Glad you got your answer, Jamie!!

Cheers, Jim

-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!! Variety is the Spice of Life!!

Wow, that is over my head. Glad you got your answer, Jamie!!

Cheers, Jim

- Jim Jakosh

I don’t know how to do “An IP trace and reverse lookup report ” but I understand in a very basic way what it is. I figured that, chances were, the odd URL was for LJ, but wasn’t about to take a chance on it without checking first. Still haven’t figured out what triggers an automatic log-out. I bounce back and forth from my laptop (daytime) to a tablet (late night, first hour of the morning). End up getting logged out on the tablet fairly often, but not always. My laptop almost never gets logged out, and I wake it up and put it to sleep many times every day.

-- My mother said that anyone learning to cook needed a large dog to eat the mistakes. As a sculptor of wood I have always tried to keep a fireplace. (Norman Ridenour)