VisualRoute shows that pinging whitehouse.gov produces exactly the same path as pinging fbi.gov, both ending in Los Angeles. Is that where Cheney is holed up in the Getty Combustible Bunker? Sniff the LA impure air, is that La Brea tar or Halliburton grease? Pinging the WH is will shortly be a terrorist act warns Patriot, so better hurry before the bush hammers john henry. Anthrac, quack, quack.
I believe that they have been Akamai'd - based on conversations in Praha last week with their guys. f At 5:05 pm -0700 13/10/01, John Young wrote:
VisualRoute shows that pinging whitehouse.gov produces exactly the same path as pinging fbi.gov, both ending in Los Angeles. Is that where Cheney is holed up in the Getty Combustible Bunker? Sniff the LA impure air, is that La Brea tar or Halliburton grease?
Pinging the WH is will shortly be a terrorist act warns Patriot, so better hurry before the bush hammers john henry.
Anthrac, quack, quack.
That's correct, the trace legend says for both: "It is a HTTP server (running AkamaiGHost)." But why seemingly terminate in Los Angeles? Is that a cloaking device? Usually when a final hop is blocked VisualRoute reports the block, but not in these cases. Both traces' final two hops: 209.244.10.42 | gigabitethernet6-0.ipcolo1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net | Los Angeles, CA | 63.215.64.30 | www.whitehouse.gov | [no location shown] | 209.244.10.42 | gigabitethernet6-0.ipcolo1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net | Los Angeles, CA | 63.215.64.30 | www.fbi.gov | [no location shown] | The final IP address does not appear in a DNS lookup for either of the .gov domains. Whitehouse.gov pulls up the Executive Office of the President, and fbi.gov an FBI information processing office. Is that Praha CZ, or Praha AR? Fergus McKay wrote:
I believe that they have been Akamai'd - based on conversations in Praha last week with their guys.
At 6:11 pm -0700 13/10/01, John Young wrote:
That's correct, the trace legend says for both:
"It is a HTTP server (running AkamaiGHost)."
But why seemingly terminate in Los Angeles? Is that a cloaking device? Usually when a final hop is blocked VisualRoute reports the block, but not in these cases. Both traces' final two hops:
more probably an Akamai thing as they guess how close you are to one of their boxes. from my UK netblock I get 2 YYY YYY 0.042 212.20.242.1 212.20.242.1 3 YYY YYY 0.041 195.97.221.121 olivefe1-0.onyx.net 4 YYY YYY 0.056 195.97.199.73 willows2-1.onyx.net 5 YYY YYY 0.055 195.66.224.77 gigabitethernet5-0.linx1.lon1.level3.net 6 YYY YYY 0.058 212.113.0.114 pos8-0.core1.london1.level3.net 7 YYY YYY 0.052 212.187.131.39 gigabitethernet11-0.ipcolo1.london1.level3.net 8 YYY YYY 0.052 212.187.244.15 212.187.244.15 using IPNet Monitor and from my US block: 3 gige-g9-0.gsr12012.sjc.he.net (216.218.130.1) 5.887 ms 5.991 ms 11.662 ms 4 pbnap.akamaitech.net (198.32.128.61) 7.032 ms 6.794 ms 7.090 ms 5 208.184.83.198.akamai.com (208.184.83.198) 7.732 ms 7.263 ms 7.326 ms using Unix tracroute
209.244.10.42 | gigabitethernet6-0.ipcolo1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net | Los Angeles, CA | 63.215.64.30 | www.whitehouse.gov | [no location shown] |
209.244.10.42 | gigabitethernet6-0.ipcolo1.LosAngeles1.Level3.net | Los Angeles, CA | 63.215.64.30 | www.fbi.gov | [no location shown] |
The final IP address does not appear in a DNS lookup for either of the .gov domains. Whitehouse.gov pulls up the Executive Office of the President, and fbi.gov an FBI information processing office.
This was being discussed recently on the NANOG list, http://www.nanog.org/, North American Operators Group, not specifically in relation to whitehouse.gov but the principles will be the same.
Is that Praha CZ, or Praha AR?
Praha CZ - the RIPE meeting was there last week, http://www.ripe.net/, equivalent to ARIN & NANOG in Europe, Middle East and N Africa. f
Fergus McKay wrote:
I believe that they have been Akamai'd - based on conversations in Praha last week with their guys.
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