About.com/NYTimes admins about?

Sat Sep 27 15:33:47 UTC 2008

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Robert Manning <riches at about.com> wrote:
> Hey Chris, I'll reply to you off list.
>

awesome, thanks!

> Thanks for the heads up.
>
> -rjb
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> On 9/26/08 10:13 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is there perhaps an about.com/nytimes.com admin around? I was
>> wondering if they perhaps knew that their loadbalancer for
>> www.nytimes.com is fairly broken wrt answering AAAA queries:
>>
>> (who's NS for nytimes.com)
>> dig  NS nytimes.com  +short
>> ns1t.nytimes.com.
>> nydns2.about.com.
>> nydns1.about.com.
>>
>> (who do they think is the NS for www.nytimes.com)
>> dig   www.nytimes.com   @ns1t.nytimes.com. NS
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;www.nytimes.com.               IN      NS
>>
>> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>> www.nytimes.com.        60      IN      NS      nss1.sea1.nytimes.com.
>> www.nytimes.com.        60      IN      NS      nss1.lga2.nytimes.com.
>>
>> (what is the AAAA for www.nytimes.com ?? )
>> dig   www.nytimes.com   @nss1.sea1.nytimes.com. AAAA
>> ;www.nytimes.com.               IN      AAAA
>>
>> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      k.root-servers.net.
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      l.root-servers.net.
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      m.root-servers.net.
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      a.root-servers.net.
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      b.root-servers.net.
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      c.root-servers.net.
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      d.root-servers.net.
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      e.root-servers.net.
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      f.root-servers.net.
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      g.root-servers.net.
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      h.root-servers.net.
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      i.root-servers.net.
>> .                       3600000 IN      NS      j.root-servers.net.
>>
>> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>> k.root-servers.net.     3600000 IN      A       193.0.14.129
>> l.root-servers.net.     3600000 IN      A       198.32.64.12
>> m.root-servers.net.     3600000 IN      A       202.12.27.33
>>
>> ;; Query time: 89 msec
>> ;; SERVER: 170.149.172.35#53(170.149.172.35)
>>
>>
>> wha??? <ricky voice>Lucy, your loadbalancer is foobar'd</ricky voice>
>>
>> In an effort to make v6 things work a tad better in this hostile
>> world, could the NYTimes folks let us know what sort of LB that is?
>> and why it wants to not be a good Intenet Citizen??
>>
>> -Chris
>>
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