[10728] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain Name NASA.COM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Sat Jul 12 19:19:36 1997
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 19:04:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970712140452.0083ca20@localhost>
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>
> I think there's one very clear fact which shows that "nasa.com" was
> intended to be used for those mistyping the URL. Remember that
> "www.jpl.nasa.gov" was the URL given out everywhere for the Mars missions.
>
> taz [1] nslookup
> Default Server: localhost.hyperreal.com
> Address: 127.0.0.1
>
> > server 209.4.122.20
> Default Server: ns1.host.net
> Address: 209.4.122.20
>
> > www.jpl.nasa.com
> Server: ns1.host.net
> Address: 209.4.122.20
>
> Name: www.jpl.nasa.com
> Address: 209.4.122.102
It's a wildcard A record.
> ls -d nasa.com
[ns1.host.net]
nasa.com. SOA ns1.host.net root.host.net.
(1116285411 2147483647 2147483647 2147483647 2147483647)
nasa.com. NS ns1.host.net
nasa.com. NS ns2.host.net
nasa.com. MX 5 user.host.net
nasa.com.. A 209.4.122.102
www A 209.4.122.102
irc CNAME irc.dal.net
ns1 A 209.4.122.20
ns A 209.4.122.20
* MX 5 user.host.net
* A 209.4.122.102
ns2 A 209.4.122.30
nasa.com. SOA ns1.host.net root.host.net.
(1116285411 2147483647 2147483647 2147483647 2147483647)
> this.is.really.dumb.nasa.com
Server: ns1.host.net
Address: 209.4.122.20
this.is.really.dumb.nasa.com preference = 5, mail exchanger =
user.host.net
this.is.really.dumb.nasa.com internet address = 209.4.122.102
nasa.com nameserver = ns1.host.net
nasa.com nameserver = ns2.host.net
user.host.net internet address = 209.4.122.10
ns1.host.net internet address = 209.4.122.20
ns2.host.net internet address = 209.4.122.30
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