[26994] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SERVER NAMES
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Thu Feb 3 19:48:49 2000
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 19:46:37 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Majdi Abbas <majdi@puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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because of a firewall at Bellcore, I can't tell if this is the case.
However, it should be noted that just because two nameservers share a /24,
doesn't mean they are located at the same facility:
traceroute to ns1.nac.net (207.99.0.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 f0-0-1.colo1.oct.nac.net (209.123.109.1) 0.778 ms 0.764 ms 0.705 ms
2 ns1 (207.99.0.1) 0.511 ms 0.507 ms 0.436 ms
traceroute to ns2.nac.net (207.99.0.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 f0-0-1.colo1.oct.nac.net (209.123.109.1) 0.709 ms 0.969 ms 0.701 ms
2 f4-1-0-1.core2.oct.nac.net (209.123.168.225) 0.948 ms 0.708 ms 0.721 ms
3 s5-1.core1.nyc.nac.net (209.123.11.222) 7.275 ms 6.214 ms 2.900 ms
4 ns2 (207.99.0.2) 5.116 ms 10.012 ms 4.200 ms
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Majdi Abbas wrote:
>
> > At the risk of suggesting that Bellcore solved the problem, aren't
> > there some prevailing standards here?
>
> Domain servers in listed order:
>
> DNS.BELLCORE.COM 128.96.41.3
> NS.BELLCORE.COM 128.96.41.1
> NS.USWEST.COM 130.13.16.6
>
> Apparently not.
>
> -and- their nameservers are in the same netblock.
>
> --msa
>
>
