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

[Jorge Amodio]

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
> 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

That's not a DNS problem, that's CDNs problem and one of the many side effects
of abusing the DNS for what is not.

Jorge