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Re: facebook lost their A-record for www.facebook.com?


From: Anurag Bhatia <me () anuragbhatia com>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:21:54 +0530

Good point Octavio . +trace with dig is always useful when getting weird
results.

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Anurag Bhatia
http://anuragbhatia.com
On Mar 7, 2012 1:19 PM, "Octavio Alvarez" <alvarezp () alvarezp ods org> wrote:

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:43:07 -0800, Igor Ybema <igor () ergens org> wrote:

 [igor@vds ~]$ host -t A  www.facebook.com ns1.facebook.com
Using domain server:
Name: ns1.facebook.com
Address: 204.74.66.132#53
Aliases:

www.facebook.com has no A record


No, it's a subdomain with its A records in another server.

$ host -t A www.facebook.com glb1.facebook.com.
Using domain server:
Name: glb1.facebook.com.
Address: 69.171.239.10#53
Aliases:

www.facebook.com has address 69.171.224.12


Try dig +trace www.facebook.com to see why.



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