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 01 Jul 2003 08:20:11 -0800
Referencing the above two lines taken from the properties/ source of
an E mail I recently recieved...my questions are what is
[12.21.209.62]? If it is a reference number for a ISP what state/
country/city is it in?

Hello Inimreg,  
 
Thank you for your question.


I did a Reverse DNS lookup at http://remote.12dt.com/rns/

Result:

Reverse DNS Lookup 
IP Address 12.21.209.62 resolves to: dialups-544.palmer.mtaonline.net
http://remote.12dt.com/rns/

Answer:
12.21.209.62 PTR record: dialups-544.palmer.mtaonline.net
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=12.21.209.62+


I then used the NetGeo IP Lookup at http://www.dnsstuff.com/


NetGeo results for 12.21.209.62


12.21.209.62 
[STATUS:OK or MTAONLINE-208] 

Appears to be located at:  ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, US.

Full results follow:

VERSION=1.0

TARGET:        12.21.209.62
NAME:          MTAONLINE-208
NUMBER:        12.21.208.0 - 12.21.215.255
CITY:          ANCHORAGE
STATE:         ALASKA
COUNTRY:       US
LAT:           61.21
LONG:          -149.88
LAT_LONG_GRAN: City
LAST_UPDATED:  04-Feb-2000
NIC:           ARIN
LOOKUP_TYPE:   Block Allocation
RATING:        
DOMAIN_GUESS:  
STATUS:        OK
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/netgeo.ch?ip=12.21.209.62


IP Address 12.21.209.62 resolves to: dialups-544.palmer.mtaonline.net


The ISP is MTA Online which is located in Alaska.

MTA online is Alaska's fastest growing Internet Service Provider
(ISP). We provide high quality, dependable Internet access to
residential and business customers from Anchorage to Clear Anderson.
http://www.mtaonline.net/inetaccess.html
http://www.mtaonline.net/index.html


From the MTA Online FAQ:

 
“We offer local access numbers to Anchorage, Eagle River, Palmer,
Wasilla, Big Lake, Nenana, Healy and Clear/Anderson. Since we are an
Alaskan company, we currently offer no dial-up access outside Alaska.”
http://help.mtaonline.net/faq.html


To sum it up the IP Address 12.21.209.62 resolves to
dialups-544.palmer.mtaonline.net which apparently is a dial-up
connection from Palmer Alaska from ISP MTA Online


Contact information:

MTA Eagle River 
(907) 694-3211 
12110 Business Blvd 
Eagle River, AK 99577 
M-F 8:30 - 5:30

MTA Palmer 
(907) 745-3211
480 Commercial Dr
Palmer, AK 99645
M-F 8:30 - 5:30

MTA Solutions
619 E. Ship Creek Ave #241
Anchorage, AK 99501
M-F 8:00 - 5:00

MTA Wasilla
(907) 376-3211
701 E Parks Hwy #100
Wasilla, AK 99654
M-F 9:00 - 6:00, 
Sat 10:00 - 4:00

Toll Free 1 (800) 478-3211 

http://www.mtasolutions.com/opencms/opencms/mtaone/aboutmta/index.html


Search Criteria:

DNS reverse look-up
IP reverse look-up
MTA Online


I hope this helps. 

Best Regards,
Bobbie7-ga

Excellent

Thank you very much for the rating and tip!
--Bobbie7