[23875] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Severe Response Degradation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Balling)
Wed Apr 28 09:21:59 1999
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 06:18:10 -0700
To: Derrick Bennett <Derrick@anei.COM>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
In-Reply-To: <610B2212FE8BD211815500A0CC39B39C1C00@PROD>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>This is what we are currently seeing. Unfortunately @Home does not do
>reverse dns for their routers so I am going by their helpdesk's descriptions
>of locations. I do know that the router is in SF but could not get an exact
>location due to @home claiming it to be a sprint issue. This also brings
>back the conversation of RFC1918 addressing and the problems it can cause
>when troubleshooting response issues.
I haven't actually tried this, but I have been told that if you actually
use @Home's DNS servers and query the RFC1918 addresses for the routers, it
will give you back "intelligent" names.
All well and good for average-joe-weenie-@Home-user, but not very good for
those of us not slaved to their DNS. :)
D
