cnn.com name servers all in one AS

Mon May 28 01:39:50 UTC 2001

On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 11:17:15AM -0400, Daniel Senie wrote:
> 
> Lookup on cnn.com reveals a response of 4 name servers:
> 
> NS-01A.ANS.NET  199.221.47.7
> NS-01B.ANS.NET  199.221.47.8
> NS-02A.ANS.NET  207.24.245.179
> NS-02B.ANS.NET  207.24.245.178
> 
> All 4 of these are in AS 1673.
> 
> This situation has existed for a long time. CNN has their actual servers 
> multihomed, and (I think) uses Akamai for content delivery. However, the 
> core name servers remain on a single AS, so any routing problem within that 
> AS, or peering issues affecting that AS will result in CNN.COM disappearing.

they'll fix it eventually. for the exceedingly thick-headed, experience is
the only way to learn.

-- 
Sam Thomas
Geek Mercenary