Re: Google Public DNS Problems?

[Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca>]

On 2013-05-02, at 12:10, Joe Abley <jabley () hopcount ca> wrote:

> On 2013-05-02, at 11:59, Charles Gucker <cgucker () onesc net> wrote:
>
> >    That's not entirely true.    You can easily do lookup for
> > whoami.akamai.net and it will return the unicast address for the node
> > in question (provided the local resolver is able to do the
> > resolution).    This is a frequent lookup that I do when I don't know
> > what actual anycast node I'm using.
>
> Using 8.8.8.8 to tell me about whoami.akamai.net tells me what Akamai authoritative server Google last used to answer 
> that query.

Oh, now that I poke at it, it seems like whoami.akamai.net is telling me about the address of the resolver I used, 
rather than the address of the akamai node I hit.

Never mind, I understand now :-)


Joe