I see similar, intermittedly # dig +short +norec @F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET HOSTNAME.BIND CHAOS TXT "pek2a.f.root-servers.org"
# dig +short +norec @F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET HOSTNAME.BIND CHAOS TXT "ord1b.f.root-servers.org" On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Janne Snabb <sn...@epipe.com> wrote: > I happened to notice the following at three separate sites around > the US and one site in Europe: > > $ dig +short +norec @F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET HOSTNAME.BIND CHAOS TXT > "pek2a.f.root-servers.org" > > and: > > $ dig +short +norec @F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET HOSTNAME.BIND CHAOS TXT > "pek2b.f.root-servers.org" > > After running a couple of traceroutes it appears that he.net has a > route for F's anycast IPv6 address (2001:500:2f::f) towards Beijing. > According to https://www.isc.org/community/f-root/sites the Beijing > node should be a "Local Node" (without IPv6 but I suppose the list > is not up to date). > > I believe this means that a lot of DNS queries from IPv6 enabled > sites in US and other countries are going to Beijing. I wonder if > this is intentional? Chinese government (CNNIC) seems to be in the > path. > > All my sites seem to have he.net somewhere in the IPv6 connectivity > path. I wonder if this is specific to he.net or more wide-spread > routing anomaly? > > I have notified he.net NOC and F-root @ ISC. > > Best Regards, > -- > Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications > sn...@epipe.com - http://epipe.com/ > > -- -JH
