[35459] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mail.yahoo.com, "missing A records" and squid proxy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsr@tao.ne.mediaone.net)
Fri Mar 9 10:36:17 2001
From: dsr@tao.ne.mediaone.net
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 10:31:48 -0500
To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20010309101255.Z5149@reptiles.org>; from jim@reptiles.org on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:12:56AM -0500
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On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 10:12:56AM -0500, Jim Mercer wrote:
>
> poking in the DNS, i find:
>
> Name: login.yahoo.akadns.net
> Addresses: 64.58.76.98, 64.58.76.99
> Aliases: mail.yahoo.com, login.yahoo.com
>
> so, mail.yahoo.com isn't an A record, but a CNAME pointing to something
> at akadns.
>
> we are thinking there might be some issue with some dynamic nature of yahoo's
> dns.
We'll take a look at it for you.
--
Dan Ritter
Akamai Network Consulting
617 250 3035
