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History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
From: Sean Reifschneider <jafo () tummy com>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:16:30 -0700
I've wondered about this for years, but only this evening did I start searching for details. And I really couldn't find any. Can anyone point me at distant history about how 4.2.2.2 came to be, in my estimation, the most famous DNS server on the planet? I know that it was originally at BBN, what I'm looking for is things like: How the IP was picked. (I'd guess it was one of the early DNS servers, and the people behind it realized that if there was one IP address that really needed to be easy to remember, it was the DNS server, for obvious reasons). Was it always meant to be a public resolver? How it continued to remain an open resolver, even in the face of amplifier attacks using DNS resolvers. Perhaps it has had rate-limiting on it for a long time. There's a lot of conjecture about it using anycast, anyone know anything about it's current configuration? So, if anyone has any stories about 4.2.2.2, I'd love to hear them. Thanks, Sean -- Microsoft treats objects like women, man... -- Kevin Fenzi, paraphrasing the Dude, 1998 Sean Reifschneider, Member of Technical Staff <jafo () tummy com> tummy.com, ltd. - Linux Consulting since 1995: Ask me about High Availability
Current thread:
- History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Sean Reifschneider (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Steve Ryan (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? John Palmer (NANOG Acct) (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Joachim Tingvold (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Brielle Bruns (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Stephane Bortzmeyer (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? John Palmer (NANOG Acct) (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? John Orthoefer (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? John Levine (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Florian Weimer (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Sean Reifschneider (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Mark Andrews (Feb 14)
- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? John Levine (Feb 14)
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- Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story? Steve Ryan (Feb 14)