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! ip subnet-zero ! maybe? Best regards, David Van Allen - FASTNET(tm) / You Tools Corporation [email protected] (888)321-FAST(3278) http://www.fast.net FASTNET - Business and Personal Internet Solutions > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 1998 3:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Urrr... A-root server foul ? > > > > Is anyone else seeing this? > > Yep, once you point us in that direction. > > > really *cool* udp trick, or is bcast space now DNS capable? > > What am I missing? > > 198.41.0.4 can as far as I can see not be a broadcast address > under any left-contiguous netmask, unless it's the 0'th address > on some subnet and the router sitting on the net has the really- > old-style-and-now-deprecated directed broadcast address > forwarding enabled (not likely). > > A DNS query to 198.41.0.4 does however only elicit a single > response, so I doubt this is much to worry about. (My guess: > they have 4 machines sharing the load via some form of load- > sharing setup.) > > - H�vard >
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