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? > Perhaps they use it to pad their IP allocations?? DJ
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