[27017] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: www.netscape.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron da Silva)
Sun Feb 6 08:18:33 2000
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 08:05:10 -0500
From: Ron da Silva <ron@aol.net>
To: Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk@power.net>
Cc: "Nicholas W. Blasgen" <nblasgen@refract.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20000206020802.B28726@noc.power.net>; from dirk@power.net on Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 02:08:02AM -0800
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No bugs...it is by design.
-ron
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 02:08:02AM -0800, Dirk Harms-Merbitz wrote:
>
> Guess there are bugs in that technology then. My name server
> was 207.151.19.6.
>
> Dirk
>
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 10:44:21PM -0800, Nicholas W. Blasgen wrote:
> > It just uses the same DNS technology as Yahoo and others.
> >
> > nick:~# dig www.netscape.com
> >
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > www.netscape.com. 15M IN CNAME vwww-va2.netscape.com.
> >
> >
> > The DNS server will check the IP address of the name server which you use
> > and find the nearest location it can find for that IP address. In your case
> > you might be using a DNS server that is in another country, or the other
> > sites were getting so many hits that it decided AU was the fastest.
> >
> > >
> > > Netscape is feeding web from Australia? Can this be?
> > >
> > > [dirk@noc dirk]$ dig www.netscape.com
> > >
> > > ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> www.netscape.com
> > > ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> > > ;; got answer:
> > > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
> > > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
> > > ;; QUERY SECTION:
> > > ;; www.netscape.com, type = A, class = IN
> > >
> > > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > > www.netscape.com. 13m59s IN CNAME wwwld-au.netscape.com.
> > > wwwld-au.netscape.com. 58m59s IN A 203.89.225.69
