> On May 23, 2019, at 4:11 PM, Matt Harris <m...@netfire.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 2:55 PM Jared Mauch <ja...@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.li...@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
