DNS resolving problem with www.intel.com, www.nvidia.com
Hans den Otter
HansdenOtter at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 12 21:58:04 UTC 2006
> Hi
>
> I am running several different DNSes and i am having problem resolving IP
> addresses with www.intel.com, www.apple.com, www.nvidia.com .
>
> [root at mail ~]# nslookup
>> www.nvidia.com
> Server: 127.0.0.1
> Address: 127.0.0.1#53
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> www.nvidia.com canonical name = www.nvidia.com.edgesuite.net.
> www.nvidia.com.edgesuite.net canonical name = a1650.g.akamai.net.
> Name: a1650.g.akamai.net
> Address: 213.144.186.7
> Name: a1650.g.akamai.net
> Address: 213.144.186.14
>> exit
>
> [root at mail ~]# ping www.nvidia.com
> PING a1650.g.akamai.net (213.144.186.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
>
> --- a1650.g.akamai.net ping statistics ---
> 27 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 25996ms
>
> I seems that only akamai.net resolves wrong
Nothing wrong,
Your looking at Edgesuite
http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/edgesuite.html which is service of
Akamai.
They use HTTP redirect to get you to the nearest webserver.
So you can not ping the webserver of Nvidia or Intel in this way.
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