On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Richard Irving wrote:
Is anyone else seeing this ? really *cool* udp trick, or is bcast space now DNS capable ? What am I missing ?
Server: ns2.mci.net Address: 204.70.57.242
Non-authoritative answer: Name: A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET Address: 198.41.0.4
And a ping yields ?
64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=16 ttl=250 time=59 ms 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=16 ttl=249 time=76 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=16 ttl=250 time=77 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=17 ttl=250 time=57 ms 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=17 ttl=250 time=64 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=17 ttl=249 time=73 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=18 ttl=250 time=71 ms 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=19 ttl=250 time=53 ms 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=19 ttl=249 time=57 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 198.41.0.4: icmp_seq=19 ttl=249 time=73 ms (DUP!)
Actually, let's use 12.7.96.0/24 as an example... 12.7.96.6 is the only machine in this range that has an answer on port 53 for DNS empnet:chris {104} nslookup Default Server: mimosa.noc.empnet.com Address: 12.7.96.6
server 12.7.96.255 Default Server: [12.7.96.255] Address: 12.7.96.255
merit.edu Server: [12.7.96.255] Address: 12.7.96.255
Non-authoritative answer: Name: merit.edu Address: 198.108.1.42
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