Re: Google weird routing?

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

> On May 23, 2019, at 4:11 PM, Matt Harris <matt () netfire net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 2:55 PM Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net> wrote:
> I would say that it says BOM at the start of the name, perhaps they are sending you to India?
>
> Are you using a DNS service that uses ECS facing the various CDN/Cloud providers or a different one?
>
> This is my thinking, too, however my recursive DNS servers are all on the same network as the systems trying to reach 
> google, all of which are on IP space that I own and announced exclusively by AS 394102 here in the US.  I've also 
> taken care to maintain as many geoip service entries as could be found/maintained, including maxmind's.  Where they 
> would get the idea that my packets should go to India is beyond me.   
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 3:06 PM Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> not sure where you are starting from (really) .. can you provide a:
>   dig www.google.com
>
> for me? My guess is that as Jared noted you got somehow looking like
> you are in india to whatever does that magic :)
>
> Google's coming back with bom* addresses; no idea why though.  
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.google.com.         300     IN      A       172.217.26.228
>
>
> Hoping someone over there can shed some light on why they are sending my packets on a world trip.  :)

If you send the query to 8.8.8.8 do you get a more favorable response (just curious).

You can also run this query:

dig TXT whoami.ds.akahelp.net.

Which may assist.

- jared