There's been many ups and downs as far as the Internet has been concerned in 2017 and a few have been close to home, that is for sure and in relation to that, one thing that has become necessary is monitoring of the site's logging system for anything that floods the site un-necessarily. Such floods are one of the known causes.

Tonight, whilst doing this I couldn't help notice the bad spelling that is currently a part of Telstra's DNS. Telstra no longer uses it's Bigpond branding in its product sales but ISPs do hang on to their old brands so that their customers aren't inconvenienced by having to change their e-mail addresses as often as would be the case if all redundant branding was just wiped from the historical record.

As the following DNS record does belong to a visitor, the IP address that is a part of it is masked with a wildcard character to prevent it being used to identify the user.

Can anyone spot the error in the hostname? (And, no... no money or prizes are on offer for a correct guess! Bragging rights for the first correct guess do go to the lucky candidate, however.)

cpe-101-161-149-***.bpxt-r-036.ken.nsw.bipond.net.au

For the record, the user of this hostname has been a perfectly law-abiding citizen as far as can be ascertained. They have just been unlucky enough to inherit the mistake. To be honest, I am unsure as to why ISPs map their IPs to host names. Most do but some don't and either way it doesn't affect performance of the subscriber's connection. An ISP I used some years ago seemed happy to leave me with an IP address.

That's the worst spelling of bipod I've ever seen.

You get the chokkies.