Guess there are bugs in that technology then. My name server was 207.151.19.6. Dirk On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 10:44:21PM -0800, Nicholas W. Blasgen wrote:
It just uses the same DNS technology as Yahoo and others.
nick:~# dig www.netscape.com
;; ANSWER SECTION: www.netscape.com. 15M IN CNAME vwww-va2.netscape.com.
The DNS server will check the IP address of the name server which you use and find the nearest location it can find for that IP address. In your case you might be using a DNS server that is in another country, or the other sites were getting so many hits that it decided AU was the fastest.
Netscape is feeding web from Australia? Can this be?
[dirk@noc dirk]$ dig www.netscape.com
; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> www.netscape.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; www.netscape.com, type = A, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION: www.netscape.com. 13m59s IN CNAME wwwld-au.netscape.com. wwwld-au.netscape.com. 58m59s IN A 203.89.225.69