On May 02, 2013, at 14:42 , "Constantine A. Murenin" <muren...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 May 2013 11:12, Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net> wrote:
>> For clarity: Looking up the hostname "whoami.akamai.net" will return the IP >> address in the source field of the packet (DNS query) which reached the >> authoritative name server for Akamai.net. >> >> We use this to look for forwarding or proxying, which is frequently unknown >> / invisible to the end user. >> >> It has the side-effect that querying against an anycast server (e.g. >> 208.67.222.222 or 8.8.8.8) will show the unicast address of the anycast node >> which forwarded to our servers. >> >> In case anyone is wondering, we do not do any special logging or watching of >> this hostname. It is logged for a short time on the local hard drive the >> same as any other DNS query, but unless someone actually looks, we will not >> notice if you query for it. So feel free to use it for your own purposes as >> much as you like. We have a bit of spare DNS capacity. :) > > No IPv6 at akamai.net, huh? :p No, sorry. We're working on it. Of course, v6 is available on most other Akamai products. And if someone wants to pay us for v6 on whomai..... :) -- TTFN, patrick > Cns# host whoami.akamai.net > whoami.akamai.net has address 216.66.80.30 > Cns# host 216.66.80.30 > 30.80.66.216.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer tserv1.fra1.he.net. > Cns# > > Does anyone run a DNS whoami that's IPv6-ready? > > C. >
