Thanks Ben,

I used the wrong domain name.  When ns.pearsoncmg.com is queried for 
media.pearsoncmg.com, this is what is returned in the answer section:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
media.pearsoncmg.com.   808     IN      CNAME   
media.pearsoncmg.com.edgesuite.net.
media.pearsoncmg.com.edgesuite.net. 16919 IN CNAME a1355.g.akamai.net.
a1355.g.akamai.net.     16      IN      A       64.215.158.205
a1355.g.akamai.net.     16      IN      A       64.215.158.218

Thanks for the help.  I am going to read and learn how to use dig.

Shane


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:49 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: How to determine a host's IP range

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Thomas Mullins <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>        dig +short txt_netblocks.pearsoncmg.com         There were no results 
> returned.

  Where did "txt_netblocks.pearsoncmg.com" come from?  That doesn't appear to 
be an existent domain name.  It's even questionable syntax; Internet host names 
aren't supposed to contain underscores.

  Also, you want to query the authoritative nameservers directly; otherwise, 
you're just seeing what's in your cache.  Given your original message, I found:

> dig +noall +ans ANY media.pearsoncmg.com. @ns.pearsoncmg.com.
media.pearsoncmg.com.   900     IN      CNAME
media.pearsoncmg.com.edgesuite.net.
>

  Mr. Aldrich is right: This appears to be hosted by a Content Distribution 
Network, so you're likely to find the IP address varies all over the place.

-- Ben

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