[162841] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: whoami.akamai.net [was: Google Public DNS Problems?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu May 2 14:47:28 2013
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPKkNb6wzrnwbSws=j2+hY7EWVDxGv0BUafwAFbDr4nC0oJpqg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 14:47:05 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On May 02, 2013, at 14:42 , "Constantine A. Murenin" =
<mureninc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 May 2013 11:12, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wrote:
>> For clarity: Looking up the hostname "whoami.akamai.net" will return =
the IP address in the source field of the packet (DNS query) which =
reached the authoritative name server for Akamai.net.
>>=20
>> We use this to look for forwarding or proxying, which is frequently =
unknown / invisible to the end user.
>>=20
>> It has the side-effect that querying against an anycast server (e.g. =
208.67.222.222 or 8.8.8.8) will show the unicast address of the anycast =
node which forwarded to our servers.
>>=20
>> In case anyone is wondering, we do not do any special logging or =
watching of this hostname. It is logged for a short time on the local =
hard drive the same as any other DNS query, but unless someone actually =
looks, we will not notice if you query for it. So feel free to use it =
for your own purposes as much as you like. We have a bit of spare DNS =
capacity. :)
>=20
> No IPv6 at akamai.net, huh? :p
No, sorry. We're working on it.
Of course, v6 is available on most other Akamai products.
And if someone wants to pay us for v6 on whomai..... :)
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
> Cns# host whoami.akamai.net
> whoami.akamai.net has address 216.66.80.30
> Cns# host 216.66.80.30
> 30.80.66.216.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer tserv1.fra1.he.net.
> Cns#
>=20
> Does anyone run a DNS whoami that's IPv6-ready?
>=20
> C.
>=20
