Re: Severe Response Degradation

[Andrew Brown <twofsonet () graffiti com>]

> > I haven't actually tried this, but I have been told that if you actually
> > use @Home's DNS servers and query the RFC1918 addresses for the routers, it
> > will give you back "intelligent" names.
>
> I've tried it, without success. If anyone finds a particular DNS server
> in their realm which does resolve these, please let me know. They seem
> to treat the info as trade secrets... very annoying.

i tried it. it worked fine.  dig home.net ns and try those.  i just
axfr'ed

   168.192.in-addr.arpa (36 answers)
   10.in-addr.arpa      (3770 answers)
   16.172.in-addr.arpa  (926 records)
   17.172.in-addr.arpa  (158 records)

from their ns2.home.net (24.2.0.27).  they're not using the rest of
172.16/12.  or, at least, don't have the reverse zones set up.

> Considering the large chunk of 24/8 they have, I can't imagine why they
> had to use RFC 1918 addresses throughout their infrastructure. When I
> raised issues about this (just after getting a T1 to their network),
> they had no answers other than that since they chose an MTU of 1500
> bytes for all their links, they didn't think path MTU discovery would be
> an issue.

well then, they're obviously clueless.

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