[55663] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Odd DNS responses for www.neopets.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Lambert)
Wed Feb 5 20:08:45 2003
From: "Alex Lambert" <alambert@quickfire.org>
To: "Stephen Milton" <milton@isomedia.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:05:32 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Maybe it's just me, but isn't there something odd about a DNS query
> coming back with 78 entries for the same host? It sends back an UDP
> packet that gets truncated and the DNS resolver reverts to TCP to get
> the full list.
This is often used for server pools (as I'm guessing you know).
> It seems to cause problems with Windows clients and/or Windows DNS
> servers. Seems like overkill.
The 78 addresses listed here are all in one bit of a /24. In the cases I've
seen, there are a few servers listed in several different locations,
network- (and location-) wise. I agree that this looks really weird. Perhaps
they use it as a cheap load balancer?
Cheers,
Alex Lambert
alambert@quickfire.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Milton" <milton@isomedia.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:47 PM
Subject: Odd DNS responses for www.neopets.com
