Re: fbi.gov weirdness?

[Ryan Tucker <rtucker () netacc net>]

On Thursday, October 11, 2001, at 06:41 , cg wrote:

> Hi All,
>     I hope I'm posting this to the right list. I'm most likely just 
> paranoid
> but is there something weird going on with the fbi.gov site?
> 1. The new warning that they put out was 
> /pressrel/pressrel01/skyfall.htm
> 2. Then it was changed to /pressrel/pressrel01/101101.htm
> 3. So after seeing the first url change I tried to go back to 
> skyfall.htm
> and I got a Not Found error with a
[...]

Noticed that too.  skyfall.htm is... an interesting reference.

> 4. Now as I look further by looking at DNS at COSTE, UXN and 
> geektools.com I
> find differing ip             addresses. COSTE reports 
> 216.200.14.114, while
> the two others (which look truer to me)                     
> 64.124.161.77.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this??

fbi.gov is Akamai'd, which means that it'll come up with a different 
IP address pretty much everywhere...

[cydonia:~] rtucker% host www.fbi.gov
www.fbi.gov is a nickname for fbi.edgesuite.net
fbi.edgesuite.net is a nickname for a33.g.akamai.net
a33.g.akamai.net has address 208.153.34.215
a33.g.akamai.net has address 208.153.34.216

[rtucker@puck rtucker]$ host www.fbi.gov
www.fbi.gov is a nickname for fbi.edgesuite.net
fbi.edgesuite.net is a nickname for a33.g.akamai.net
a33.g.akamai.net has address 216.200.14.100
a33.g.akamai.net has address 216.200.14.114

You can see the same effect (and IP's, most likely) on 
www.akamai.com.  :-)

Hope this helps.  -rt

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Ryan Tucker <rtucker () netacc net>
Network Operations Manager, NetAccess, Inc.
http://www.netacc.net/ • (716)419-8252

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