History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
I've wondered about this for years, but only this evening did I start searching for details. And I really couldn't find any. Can anyone point me at distant history about how 4.2.2.2 came to be, in my estimation, the most famous DNS server on the planet? I know that it was originally at BBN, what I'm looking for is things like: How the IP was picked. (I'd guess it was one of the early DNS servers, and the people behind it realized that if there was one IP address that really needed to be easy to remember, it was the DNS server, for obvious reasons). Was it always meant to be a public resolver? How it continued to remain an open resolver, even in the face of amplifier attacks using DNS resolvers. Perhaps it has had rate-limiting on it for a long time. There's a lot of conjecture about it using anycast, anyone know anything about it's current configuration? So, if anyone has any stories about 4.2.2.2, I'd love to hear them. Thanks, Sean -- Microsoft treats objects like women, man... -- Kevin Fenzi, paraphrasing the Dude, 1998 Sean Reifschneider, Member of Technical Staff tummy.com, ltd. - Linux Consulting since 1995: Ask me about High Availability
Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
On 02/14/2010 07:41 AM, Joe Provo wrote: > I don't think anyone else can help you determine your estimaation... Sorry, I was being kind of flippant and paying homage to the "Peggy Hill" character in _King_of_the_Hill_. > That is a question for folks at L3. Any publicly-sharable data might > be interesting presentation-fodder. Good idea, I'll have to see if I have any links into L3 that can help. > Why "conjecture"? Examining the /32s from inside and outside of 3356 I said conjecture because every person I found in my searches said things like "I think it might be anycasted" or "they could be using anycast". Until this thread, I didn't see any that spoke with authority on the subject. Thanks for the reply. Sean -- Sean Reifschneider, Member of Technical Staff tummy.com, ltd. - Linux Consulting since 1995: Ask me about High Availability signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: History of 4.2.2.2. What's the story?
On 02/14/2010 07:16 AM, John Orthoefer wrote: > Since I'm watching B5 again on DVD Awesome. Thanks for taking the time to reply, I really enjoyed the story. Have fun with the B5. The only time I watched it was on a VHS borrowed from a friend. It was a 3'x3' cabinet full of them. :-) Sean -- Sean Reifschneider, Member of Technical Staff tummy.com, ltd. - Linux Consulting since 1995: Ask me about High Availability signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
