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There’s no place like 127.0.0.1

So, the MySpace DNS admins seriously point one address of the round-robin record for myspace.com to localhost. Smart move.

$ host -vv myspace.com
Trying "myspace.com"
;; ->>HEADER< <- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61932
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;myspace.com.                   IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
myspace.com.            8282    IN      A       127.0.0.1
myspace.com.            8282    IN      A       216.178.32.48
myspace.com.            8282    IN      A       216.178.32.49
myspace.com.            8282    IN      A       216.178.32.50
myspace.com.            8282    IN      A       216.178.32.51
…

While 127.0.0.1 is most certainly “my space”, I don’t think many people host a copy of MySpace on their workstation…

Wonder how many people have to blog it until they fix it ;) In any case, Thinkgeek already has the right t-shirt for them.

(via OpenDNS and Elliot Back)



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2 Responses to “There’s no place like 127.0.0.1”

  1. 1
    Fred Says:
    November 1st, 2006 at 11:42 am

    Update: It seems fixed now — maybe the admins woke up from a long, long nap…

  2. 2
    Markus Says:
    November 7th, 2006 at 5:20 am

    *g* gibt es ein einfacheres Mittel um die Serverlast um 20% zu drücken ;) *SCNR*

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