[38054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cnn.com name servers all in one AS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Thomas)
Sun May 27 21:42:19 2001
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 01:39:50 +0000
From: Sam Thomas <sthomas@lart.net>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010528013950.A7402@lart.net>
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010527110715.00a6c3a0@mail.amaranth.net>; from dts@senie.com on Sun, May 27, 2001 at 11:17:15AM -0400
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On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 11:17:15AM -0400, Daniel Senie wrote:
>
> Lookup on cnn.com reveals a response of 4 name servers:
>
> NS-01A.ANS.NET 199.221.47.7
> NS-01B.ANS.NET 199.221.47.8
> NS-02A.ANS.NET 207.24.245.179
> NS-02B.ANS.NET 207.24.245.178
>
> All 4 of these are in AS 1673.
>
> This situation has existed for a long time. CNN has their actual servers
> multihomed, and (I think) uses Akamai for content delivery. However, the
> core name servers remain on a single AS, so any routing problem within that
> AS, or peering issues affecting that AS will result in CNN.COM disappearing.
they'll fix it eventually. for the exceedingly thick-headed, experience is
the only way to learn.
--
Sam Thomas
Geek Mercenary
