[19121] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Urrr... A-root server foul ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Van Allen)
Wed Aug 26 20:02:26 1998
From: Dave Van Allen <dave@fast.net>
To: "'Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no'" <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>,
rirving@onecall.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:52:54 -0400
!
ip subnet-zero
!
maybe?
Best regards,
David Van Allen - FASTNET(tm) / You Tools Corporation
dave@fast.net (888)321-FAST(3278) http://www.fast.net
FASTNET - Business and Personal Internet Solutions
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
> [mailto:Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 3:49 PM
> To: rirving@onecall.net
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Urrr... A-root server foul ?
>
>
> > 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
>
