[162835] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google Public DNS Problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu May 2 12:14:02 2013
From: Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>
In-Reply-To: <734DD68C-4AF2-47E0-9966-C31DAC6E4BCD@hopcount.ca>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 12:12:46 -0400
To: Charles Gucker <cgucker@onesc.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2013-05-02, at 12:10, Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:
> On 2013-05-02, at 11:59, Charles Gucker <cgucker@onesc.net> wrote:
>=20
>> That's not entirely true. You can easily do lookup for
>> whoami.akamai.net and it will return the unicast address for the node
>> in question (provided the local resolver is able to do the
>> resolution). This is a frequent lookup that I do when I don't know
>> what actual anycast node I'm using.
>=20
> Using 8.8.8.8 to tell me about whoami.akamai.net tells me what Akamai =
authoritative server Google last used to answer that query.
Oh, now that I poke at it, it seems like whoami.akamai.net is telling me =
about the address of the resolver I used, rather than the address of the =
akamai node I hit.
Never mind, I understand now :-)
Joe
