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No bugs...it is by design. -ron On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 02:08:02AM -0800, Dirk Harms-Merbitz wrote: > > Guess there are bugs in that technology then. My name server > was 207.151.19.6. > > Dirk > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 10:44:21PM -0800, Nicholas W. Blasgen wrote: > > It just uses the same DNS technology as Yahoo and others. > > > > nick:~# dig www.netscape.com > > > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > > www.netscape.com. 15M IN CNAME vwww-va2.netscape.com. > > > > > > The DNS server will check the IP address of the name server which you use > > and find the nearest location it can find for that IP address. In your case > > you might be using a DNS server that is in another country, or the other > > sites were getting so many hits that it decided AU was the fastest. > > > > > > > > Netscape is feeding web from Australia? Can this be? > > > > > > [[email protected] dirk]$ dig www.netscape.com > > > > > > ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> www.netscape.com > > > ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch > > > ;; got answer: > > > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 > > > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4 > > > ;; QUERY SECTION: > > > ;; www.netscape.com, type = A, class = IN > > > > > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > > > www.netscape.com. 13m59s IN CNAME wwwld-au.netscape.com. > > > wwwld-au.netscape.com. 58m59s IN A 203.89.225.69
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