When I worked for NeoPets in the summer of 2000 they had a server farm about that size. It was behind a NetFoundry (I think) Load Balancer at the time. Perhaps their load balancer died and they had to get back up in a hurry.
Thanks, Adam "Tauvix" Debus Linux Certified Professional, Linux Certified Administrator #447641 Network Administrator, ReachONE Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deepak Jain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alex Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Stephen Milton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:40 PM Subject: RE: Odd DNS responses for www.neopets.com > > > > > > Maybe it's just me, but isn't there something odd about a DNS query > > > coming back with 78 entries for the same host? It sends back an UDP > > > packet that gets truncated and the DNS resolver reverts to TCP to get > > > the full list. > > > > This is often used for server pools (as I'm guessing you know). > > > > > It seems to cause problems with Windows clients and/or Windows DNS > > > servers. Seems like overkill. > > > > The 78 addresses listed here are all in one bit of a /24. In the > > cases I've > > seen, there are a few servers listed in several different locations, > > network- (and location-) wise. I agree that this looks really > > weird. Perhaps > > they use it as a cheap load balancer? > > > > > Perhaps they use it to pad their IP allocations?? > > DJ >
