CDNs for carriers

Mon Jun 29 14:46:03 UTC 2015

Christopher Morrow wrote on 6/29/2015 9:25 AM:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
>> This being said, there is not a single solution to everything.  Chris mentioned using DNS, which is a nice method assuming you see all the queries within your traffic cone.
>
> sorry, I meant that you could just look at the reverse dns for some of
> the higher traffic sources/destinations... you can ALSO look at your
> recursive dns servers to see what folk are looking up 'often'... which
> is a third tool to use. (presuming you see all/most/representative-set
> of your customers, yes)

For hosts with no (or meaningless) reverse DNS, I've found that browsing 
to the IP in question via HTTPs will often provide an SSL certificate 
with lots of useful information.

--Blake