[19114] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Urrr... A-root server foul ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no)
Wed Aug 26 16:41:14 1998
To: rirving@onecall.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:21:38 -0500"
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 21:49:29 +0200
> Is anyone else seeing this?
Yep, once you point us in that direction.
> really *cool* udp trick, or is bcast space now DNS capable?
> What am I missing?
198.41.0.4 can as far as I can see not be a broadcast address
under any left-contiguous netmask, unless it's the 0'th address
on some subnet and the router sitting on the net has the really-
old-style-and-now-deprecated directed broadcast address
forwarding enabled (not likely).
A DNS query to 198.41.0.4 does however only elicit a single
response, so I doubt this is much to worry about. (My guess:
they have 4 machines sharing the load via some form of load-
sharing setup.)
- Håvard
