Re: www.netscape.com

[Dirk Harms-Merbitz <dirk () power net>]

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