Re: About.com/NYTimes admins about?

["Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Robert Manning <riches () about com> wrote:
> Hey Chris, I'll reply to you off list.

awesome, thanks!

> Thanks for the heads up.
>
> -rjb
>
>
> On 9/26/08 10:13 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Is there perhaps an about.com/nytimes.com admin around? I was
> > wondering if they perhaps knew that their loadbalancer for
> > www.nytimes.com is fairly broken wrt answering AAAA queries:
> >
> > (who's NS for nytimes.com)
> > dig  NS nytimes.com  +short
> > ns1t.nytimes.com.
> > nydns2.about.com.
> > nydns1.about.com.
> >
> > (who do they think is the NS for www.nytimes.com)
> > dig   www.nytimes.com   @ns1t.nytimes.com. NS
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;www.nytimes.com.               IN      NS
> >
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > www.nytimes.com.        60      IN      NS      nss1.sea1.nytimes.com.
> > www.nytimes.com.        60      IN      NS      nss1.lga2.nytimes.com.
> >
> > (what is the AAAA for www.nytimes.com ?? )
> > dig   www.nytimes.com   @nss1.sea1.nytimes.com. AAAA
> > ;www.nytimes.com.               IN      AAAA
> >
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      k.root-servers.net.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      l.root-servers.net.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      m.root-servers.net.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      a.root-servers.net.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      b.root-servers.net.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      c.root-servers.net.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      d.root-servers.net.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      e.root-servers.net.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      f.root-servers.net.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      g.root-servers.net.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      h.root-servers.net.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      i.root-servers.net.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      j.root-servers.net.
> >
> > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> > k.root-servers.net.     3600000 IN      A       193.0.14.129
> > l.root-servers.net.     3600000 IN      A       198.32.64.12
> > m.root-servers.net.     3600000 IN      A       202.12.27.33
> >
> > ;; Query time: 89 msec
> > ;; SERVER: 170.149.172.35#53(170.149.172.35)
> >
> >
> > wha??? <ricky voice>Lucy, your loadbalancer is foobar'd</ricky voice>
> >
> > In an effort to make v6 things work a tad better in this hostile
> > world, could the NYTimes folks let us know what sort of LB that is?
> > and why it wants to not be a good Intenet Citizen??
> >
> > -Chris