[122403] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Ryan)
Sun Feb 14 07:44:10 2010
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:43:20 -0800
From: Steve Ryan <auser@mind.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20100214091630.GA13678@tummy.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I think around 10 years ago Slashdot had a few stories (and still do,
actually) about how great these resolvers were. I think that propelled
quite a bit of their growth and popularity.
On 2/14/2010 1:16 AM, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> I've wondered about this for years, but only this evening did I start
> searching for details. And I really couldn't find any.
>
> Can anyone point me at distant history about how 4.2.2.2 came to be, in my
> estimation, the most famous DNS server on the planet?
>
> I know that it was originally at BBN, what I'm looking for is things like:
>
> How the IP was picked. (I'd guess it was one of the early DNS servers,
> and the people behind it realized that if there was one IP address
> that really needed to be easy to remember, it was the DNS server,
> for obvious reasons).
> Was it always meant to be a public resolver?
> How it continued to remain an open resolver, even in the face of
> amplifier attacks using DNS resolvers. Perhaps it has had
> rate-limiting on it for a long time.
> There's a lot of conjecture about it using anycast, anyone know anything
> about it's current configuration?
>
> So, if anyone has any stories about 4.2.2.2, I'd love to hear them.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
