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Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

#3

Post by mkr-hn »

jcr wrote: post #2

The domain "example.com" is reserved for examples. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761#section-6.5

Something still serves pages and responds to requests. I want to know what the logs look like (in general). I hoped the person who administers it was an HN user.

Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

#4

Post by jcr »

mkr-hn wrote: post #3
jcr wrote: post #2

The domain "example.com" is reserved for examples. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761#section-6.5

Something still serves pages and responds to requests. I want to know what the logs look like (in general). I hoped the person who administers it was an HN user.

$ nslookup example.com Server: 10.1.1.1 Address: 10.1.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer: Name: example.com Address: 93.184.216.119

$ whois 93.184.216.119 

  % Information related to '93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255'

  % Abuse contact for '93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255' is 'abuse@edgecast.com'

  inetnum:        93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255
  netname:        EDGECAST-NETBLK-03
  descr:          NETBLK-03-EU-93-184-216-0-24
  country:        EU
  admin-c:        DS7892-RIPE
  tech-c:         DS7892-RIPE
  status:         ASSIGNED PA
  mnt-by:         MNT-EDGECAST
  source:         RIPE # Filtered

  person:         Derrick Sawyer
  address:        2850 Ocean Park Blvd., Suite 200, Santa Monica CA 90405 USA
  phone:          +18773343236
  nic-hdl:        DS7892-RIPE
  source:         RIPE # Filtered
  mnt-by:         MNT-EDGECAST
That seems to be the person you'd want to ask.

Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

#5

Post by mkr-hn »

jcr wrote: post #4
mkr-hn wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something still serves pages and responds to requests. I want to know what the logs look like (in general). I hoped the person who administers it was an HN user.

$ nslookup example.com Server: 10.1.1.1 Address: 10.1.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: example.com Address: 93.184.216.119 $ whois 93.184.216.119 % Information related to '93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255' % Abuse contact for '93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255' is 'abuse@edgecast.com' inetnum: 93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255 netname: EDGECAST-NETBLK-03 descr: NETBLK-03-EU-93-184-216-0-24 country: EU admin-c: DS7892-RIPE…

I had two options:

1: Email them and ask for myself, and only myself.

2: See if I could cajole the admin out into the light for a potentially interesting public discussion.

Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

#6

Post by jcr »

mkr-hn wrote: post #5
jcr wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$ nslookup example.com Server: 10.1.1.1 Address: 10.1.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: example.com Address: 93.184.216.119 $ whois 93.184.216.119 % Information related to '93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255' % Abuse contact for '93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255' is 'abuse@edgecast.com' inetnum: 93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255 netname: EDGECAST-NETBLK-03 descr: NETBLK-03-EU-93-184-216-0-24 country: EU admin-c: DS7892-RIPE…

I had two options: 1: Email them and ask for myself, and only myself. 2: See if I could cajole the admin out into the light for a potentially interesting public discussion.

Well you got my up-vote. ;)

The trouble is, the edgecast.com Content Distribution Network (CDN) is owned by Verizon. In theory, the `nslookup example.com` command should fail with NXDOMAIN (Non-eXisting Domain) error, but on some networks like Verizon, the bastards are actually resolving it even though the IETF and IANA specs say it should never resolve at all. For notes, Verizon does transparent redirection of DNS requests on their network so you actually can't use anything other than their DNS servers, but this case is just odd.

EDIT: I originally wrote `whois` rather than `nslookup` --heck, whois doesn't have that error code. It's early/late, and it seems hn user "vertex-four" below is right about the "example.com" domain always being registered to IANA, but as far as I remember, it should never resolve to an IP address. Need sleep.

Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

#7

Post by MattyMc »

mkr-hn wrote: post #5
jcr wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$ nslookup example.com Server: 10.1.1.1 Address: 10.1.1.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: example.com Address: 93.184.216.119 $ whois 93.184.216.119 % Information related to '93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255' % Abuse contact for '93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255' is 'abuse@edgecast.com' inetnum: 93.184.216.0 - 93.184.216.255 netname: EDGECAST-NETBLK-03 descr: NETBLK-03-EU-93-184-216-0-24 country: EU admin-c: DS7892-RIPE…

I had two options: 1: Email them and ask for myself, and only myself. 2: See if I could cajole the admin out into the light for a potentially interesting public discussion.

Do it! I would love to know the answer to this as well. I bet there's a great story here.

Re: Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?

#9

Post by [deleted] »

jcr wrote: post #6
mkr-hn wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had two options: 1: Email them and ask for myself, and only myself. 2: See if I could cajole the admin out into the light for a potentially interesting public discussion.

Well you got my up-vote. ;) The trouble is, the edgecast.com Content Distribution Network (CDN) is owned by Verizon. In theory, the `nslookup example.com` command should fail with NXDOMAIN (Non-eXisting Domain) error, but on some networks like Verizon, the bastards are actually resolving it even though the IETF and IANA specs say it should never resolve at all. For notes, Verizon does transparent redirection of DNS r…

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