Re: whoami.akamai.net [was: Google Public DNS Problems?]

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On May 02, 2013, at 14:42 , "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc () gmail com> wrote:
> On 2 May 2013 11:12, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick () ianai net> wrote:

> > For clarity: Looking up the hostname "whoami.akamai.net" will return the IP address in the source field of the 
> > packet (DNS query) which reached the authoritative name server for Akamai.net.
> >
> > We use this to look for forwarding or proxying, which is frequently unknown / invisible to the end user.
> >
> > It has the side-effect that querying against an anycast server (e.g. 208.67.222.222 or 8.8.8.8) will show the 
> > unicast address of the anycast node which forwarded to our servers.
> >
> > In case anyone is wondering, we do not do any special logging or watching of this hostname. It is logged for a short 
> > time on the local hard drive the same as any other DNS query, but unless someone actually looks, we will not notice 
> > if you query for it. So feel free to use it for your own purposes as much as you like. We have a bit of spare DNS 
> > capacity. :)
>
> No IPv6 at akamai.net, huh? :p

No, sorry. We're working on it.

Of course, v6 is available on most other Akamai products.

And if someone wants to pay us for v6 on whomai..... :)

-- 
TTFN,
patrick


> Cns# host whoami.akamai.net
> whoami.akamai.net has address 216.66.80.30
> Cns# host 216.66.80.30
> 30.80.66.216.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer tserv1.fra1.he.net.
> Cns#
>
> Does anyone run a DNS whoami that's IPv6-ready?
>
> C.