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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Odd DNS responses for www.neopets.com
> Maybe it's just me, but isn't there something odd about a DNS query > coming back with 78 entries for the same host? It sends back an UDP > packet that gets truncated and the DNS resolver reverts to TCP to get > the full list. This is often used for server pools (as I'm guessing you know). > It seems to cause problems with Windows clients and/or Windows DNS > servers. Seems like overkill. The 78 addresses listed here are all in one bit of a /24. In the cases I've seen, there are a few servers listed in several different locations, network- (and location-) wise. I agree that this looks really weird. Perhaps they use it as a cheap load balancer? Cheers, Alex Lambert [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Milton" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:47 PM Subject: Odd DNS responses for www.neopets.com
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