On Aug 26, 2007 22:38:06, Don Gould wrote: > Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: >> That statement doesn't fit well with their recent relocation of most >> (all?) web and email servers to Australia... > > I know, it's weird. Though, how do you know that the servers are actually > located in AU?
Seems pretty clear (also note their primary and secondary MX have the same IP!): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host -t MX xtra.co.nz xtra.co.nz mail is handled by 10 mx1.tnz.mail.yahoo.com. xtra.co.nz mail is handled by 20 mx2.tnz.mail.yahoo.com. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host mx1.tnz.mail.yahoo.com mx1.tnz.mail.yahoo.com has address 124.108.96.67 mx1.tnz.mail.yahoo.com mail is handled by 0 . [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host mx2.tnz.mail.yahoo.com mx2.tnz.mail.yahoo.com has address 124.108.96.67 mx2.tnz.mail.yahoo.com mail is handled by 0 . [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ jwhois 124.108.96.67 inetnum: 124.108.96.0 - 124.108.99.255 netname: AUE descr: Yahoo-AUE country: AU admin-c: SD210-AP tech-c: SD210-AP status: ASSIGNED NON-PORTABLE mnt-by: MAINT-AP-YAHOO-INC changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20070628 source: APNIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo traceroute -I 124.108.96.67 traceroute to mta1.tnz.mail.vip.aue.yahoo.com (124.108.96.67), 30 hops max, 46 byte packets 1 192.168.27.1 (192.168.27.1) 0.870 ms 0.833 ms 0.738 ms 2 192.168.28.1 (192.168.28.1) 2.845 ms 2.097 ms 4.352 ms 3 lo2.akl-grafton-bba1.ihug.net (203.109.128.242) 63.989 ms 63.329 ms 59.883 ms 4 gi1-2.akl-grafton-bdr1.ihug.net (203.109.130.118) 60.433 ms 64.377 ms 60.219 ms 5 apx1-2.akl.ihug.co.nz (203.109.130.89) 68.733 ms 63.881 ms 65.303 ms 6 so-0-2-0.akbr3.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.232.33) 65.693 ms 64.342 ms so-3-3-0.akbr3.global-gateway.net.nz (203.96.120.73) 64.989 ms 7 so-1-1-1.sybr5.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.232.222) 85.641 ms so1-1-1.sybr5.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.232.10) 87.744 ms so-1-1-1.sybr5.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.232.222) 88.335 ms 8 yahoo.sybr5.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.236.34) 87.948 ms 88.017 ms 89.996 ms 9 gi1-1.bas2.aue.yahoo.com (203.84.216.206) 90.184 ms 85.803 ms 85.264 ms 10 mta1.tnz.mail.vip.aue.yahoo.com (124.108.96.67) 94.884 ms 89.142 ms 84.754 ms [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ host yahooxtra.co.nz yahooxtra.co.nz has address 203.84.217.26 yahooxtra.co.nz mail is handled by 10 mx1.tnz.mail.yahoo.com. yahooxtra.co.nz mail is handled by 20 mx2.tnz.mail.yahoo.com. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo traceroute -I 203.84.217.26 traceroute to i1.aunz.vip.aue.yahoo.com (203.84.217.26), 30 hops max, 46 byte packets 1 192.168.27.1 (192.168.27.1) 1.051 ms 0.805 ms 0.752 ms 2 192.168.28.1 (192.168.28.1) 1.857 ms 1.549 ms 1.481 ms 3 lo2.akl-grafton-bba1.ihug.net (203.109.128.242) 61.182 ms 65.311 ms 62.470 ms 4 gi1-2.akl-grafton-bdr1.ihug.net (203.109.130.118) 64.262 ms 1724.269 ms 64.295 ms 5 apx1-2.akl.ihug.co.nz (203.109.130.89) 65.467 ms 64.929 ms 65.136 ms 6 so-1-2-2.sybr4.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.232.218) 88.342 ms so1-1-1.sybr4.global-gateway.net.nz (210.55.202.197) 89.172 ms so-1-2-2.sybr4.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.232.218) 85.424 ms 7 yahoo.sybr4.global-gateway.net.nz (202.50.236.30) 86.339 ms 88.897 ms 84.982 ms 8 gi1-1.bas1.aue.yahoo.com (203.84.216.198) 85.273 ms 88.746 ms gi1-2.bas2.aue.yahoo.com (203.84.216.202) 86.247 ms 9 i1.aunz.vip.aue.yahoo.com (203.84.217.26) 85.179 ms 87.522 ms 86.253 ms Jasper
