Hi, > On 13 May 2016, at 9:02 AM, Roger Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is the largest provider in the country utterly incompetent? > Or is there something important about Internet architecture that I fail to > understand?
It's most likely that Telstra are AnyCasting their DNS servers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast Essentially this means that they have a single IP address that is routed to the nearest actual DNS server to the requester. And that there can be lots and lots of backends for this. Cheers, Avi _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
