I am using cloudflare for my domain. I'm using it for two reasons -- privacy and performance. performance is fine, but I am having a problem with privacy. I want to prevent people from discovering that I am using nfoservers.com to host my personal website. I entered a custom rDNS entry for my VDS server and when I do a reverse DNS lookup for the VDS server, it returns the rDNS value. This is what I desire but.....
Here is the problem. All except one domain-to-ip-converter tools online resolve my domain name to the cloudflare's ip address. This is satisfactory as the users can't trace it to nfoservers.com. However, the one exception of the tools is on the following website: http://www.hcidata.info/host2ip.cgi and it reveals the IP address of the VDS server as the IP of the resolved domain name instead of cloudflare's IP. This in itself is not the problem, because even if users do a reverse DNS lookup on the my VDS IP, it will only reveal my custom rDNS entry. The problem happens when I do a "tracert <My VDS IP>" at the command prompt in windows 7. It reveals the nfoservers.com host name in addition to the cloudflare host name during the trace route. How can I prevent this from happening, if possible?
Thanks for the help in advance.
Can I prevent tracert from revealing the nfoservers.com host name?
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Re: Can I prevent tracert from revealing the nfoservers.com host name?
It isn't possible to remove the configured reverse DNS for the NFO routers from a traceroute.
Tools like the one you linked keep a record of all IPs the domain has ever resolved to(in most cases). It may at some point in the future start reporting your cloudflare IP.
Tools like the one you linked keep a record of all IPs the domain has ever resolved to(in most cases). It may at some point in the future start reporting your cloudflare IP.
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Re: Can I prevent tracert from revealing the nfoservers.com host name?
OK. Thanks for the info.