[23877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Severe Response Degradation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Wed Apr 28 10:06:09 1999
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:04:29 -0400
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
In-Reply-To: <37270F99.332632C5@senie.com>; from Daniel Senie on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 09:39:37AM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> 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.
>
>I've tried it, without success. If anyone finds a particular DNS server
>in their realm which does resolve these, please let me know. They seem
>to treat the info as trade secrets... very annoying.
i tried it. it worked fine. dig home.net ns and try those. i just
axfr'ed
168.192.in-addr.arpa (36 answers)
10.in-addr.arpa (3770 answers)
16.172.in-addr.arpa (926 records)
17.172.in-addr.arpa (158 records)
from their ns2.home.net (24.2.0.27). they're not using the rest of
172.16/12. or, at least, don't have the reverse zones set up.
>Considering the large chunk of 24/8 they have, I can't imagine why they
>had to use RFC 1918 addresses throughout their infrastructure. When I
>raised issues about this (just after getting a T1 to their network),
>they had no answers other than that since they chose an MTU of 1500
>bytes for all their links, they didn't think path MTU discovery would be
>an issue.
well then, they're obviously clueless.
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