Verizon transparent web caching issue? WASRe: Data Center QoS equipment breaking http 1.1?

Sat Aug 1 01:13:19 UTC 2009

On 1/08/2009, at 1:06 PM, up at 3.am wrote:

>
> Again, turned out to be my own stupidity.  It was just DNS on a  
> secondary DNS server, which was pointing to the old IP, which was  
> redirecting to the new IP, but at that point, the headers are lost.
>
> I would have thought that on MacOSX (my client; the server is  
> FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE), if I tell the /etc/resolv.conf to look at the  
> primary name server only, which has the correct info, plus doing a  
> dnscacheutil -flushcache, that this wouldn't be an issue.
>
> Apparently, I was wrong, or perhaps it doesn't override what Verizon  
> does with my browser's queries, despite what nslookup shows in a  
> terminal window.

As you are on OS X, have a read of http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man5/resolver.5.html

It lets you do per-domain resolvers, and so on.

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Nathan Ward