[dns-operations] After Google Mail, Google Docs, Google Wave... Google DNS

Noel Butler noel.butler at ausics.net
Sat Dec 5 00:55:58 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 18:17 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:

> This is going to throw a wrench into CDNs like Akamai that use the IP of
> the requesting DNS server to determine where to direct your request:
> 
> $ dig +short a20.g.akamai.net
> a20.g.akamai.net.0.1.cn.akamaitech.net.
> 216.180.86.39
> 216.180.86.38
> $ dig @8.8.8.8 +short a20.g.akamai.net
> 96.17.106.139
> 96.17.106.67



yep, testing from colo box, I'm no longer using ours,  i'm using
96.17.8.34
96.17.8.19
.... 10K km's away :)  that will be super great using  tv catchup  :P


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