Re: whoami.akamai.net and public DNS node replies

2018-04-02 Thread Jared Mauch
> On Apr 2, 2018, at 4:36 PM, Anurag Bhatia <m...@anuragbhatia.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Anyone using whoami.akamai.net? Thanks, our team is investigating this at present. I don’t have an ETR at the moment. - Jared

whoami.akamai.net and public DNS node replies

2018-04-02 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Hello everyone, Anyone using whoami.akamai.net? I have used it quite a while especially with large anycast players because they tend to have customer facing (anycast) IPs and internet facing unicast IPs to reach to outside world. Thus for say 8.8.8.8 while query may be local to my country

whoami.akamai.net

2013-05-16 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
As the whoami.akamai.net hostname came up on the list, I thought I'd mention it here. The hostname 'whoami.akamai.com' is a CNAME for whoami.akamai.net. That CNAME is, frankly, a mistake. It will be removed soon. If you are using the .com name, please move to the .net name. -- TTFN, patrick

whoami.akamai.net [was: Google Public DNS Problems?]

2013-05-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On May 02, 2013, at 12:12 , Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: On 2013-05-02, at 12:10, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: On 2013-05-02, at 11:59, Charles Gucker cguc...@onesc.net wrote: That's not entirely true.You can easily do lookup for whoami.akamai.net and it will return

Re: whoami.akamai.net [was: Google Public DNS Problems?]

2013-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
easily do lookup for whoami.akamai.net and it will return the unicast address for the node in question (provided the local resolver is able to do the resolution).This is a frequent lookup that I do when I don't know what actual anycast node I'm using. Using 8.8.8.8 to tell me about

Re: whoami.akamai.net [was: Google Public DNS Problems?]

2013-05-02 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
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

Re: whoami.akamai.net [was: Google Public DNS Problems?]

2013-05-02 Thread Christopher Morrow
true.You can easily do lookup for whoami.akamai.net and it will return the unicast address for the node in question (provided the local resolver is able to do the resolution).This is a frequent lookup that I do when I don't know what actual anycast node I'm using. Using 8.8.8.8

Re: whoami.akamai.net [was: Google Public DNS Problems?]

2013-05-02 Thread Cameron Daniel
On 2013-05-03 4:57 am, Christopher Morrow wrote: anyway... nit-picking-aside, cool that there's a way to figure this sort of thing out :) google has a similar method, which I can't find today :( darn webcrawler!!! dig -t txt o-o.myaddr.l.google.com

Re: whoami.akamai.net [was: Google Public DNS Problems?]

2013-05-02 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 2 May 2013 15:41, Cameron Daniel cdan...@nurve.com.au wrote: On 2013-05-03 4:57 am, Christopher Morrow wrote: anyway... nit-picking-aside, cool that there's a way to figure this sort of thing out :) google has a similar method, which I can't find today :( darn webcrawler!!! dig -t txt

Re: whoami.akamai.net [was: Google Public DNS Problems?]

2013-05-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 02 May 2013 15:48:08 -0700, Constantine A. Murenin said: On 2 May 2013 15:41, Cameron Daniel cdan...@nurve.com.au wrote: dig -t txt o-o.myaddr.l.google.com That's cool, but still no IPv6. o-o.myaddr.l.google.com. 60 IN TXT 216.66.80.30 You're complaining that there's