Really odd if so, internally (cox) and externally (google) I seem to resolve the cox address, so wonder if his bgp advertisement is just going away somehow to go to a different place, mine again just ends in Cox's network, seemingly at the right endpoint, but not the routed tale-by-hostname-resolution. mb@host:~$ host dead.horse 68.2.16.30 Using domain server: Name: 68.2.16.30 Address: 68.2.16.30#53 Aliases: dead.horse has address 66.240.194.139 dead.horse mail is handled by 10 MAIL.RWGUSA.NET. mb@host:~$ host dead.horse 8.8.8.8 Using domain server: Name: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8#53 Aliases: dead.horse has address 66.240.194.139 dead.horse mail is handled by 10 MAIL.RWGUSA.NET. mb@host:~$ mtr --report --report-cycles=1 -w dead.horse Start: Sun Sep 27 10:38:24 2015 HOST: host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1.|-- fw1.peoria1.unifiedconvergence.net 0.0% 1 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.0 2.|-- ??? 100.0 1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.|-- 100.127.69.154 0.0% 1 8.1 8.1 8.1 8.1 0.0 4.|-- 70.169.75.248 0.0% 1 18.1 18.1 18.1 18.1 0.0 5.|-- elcndsrj01-ae0.0.rd.sd.cox.net 0.0% 1 19.7 19.7 19.7 19.7 0.0 6.|-- escnaggc01-gex0401.sd.sd.cox.net 0.0% 1 25.2 25.2 25.2 25.2 0.0 7.|-- wsip-72-203-224-167.sd.sd.cox.net 0.0% 1 22.3 22.3 22.3 22.3 0.0 8.|-- 216.98.153.30 0.0% 1 21.7 21.7 21.7 21.7 0.0 9.|-- 66.240.194.139 0.0% 1 21.1 21.1 21.1 21.1 0.0 I get annoyed enough with Cox and their DNS interception/redirection for search queries, I certainly hope they're not picking who delivers content, especially when it's not the right location, but seems dns is right. I think someone is changing the records, you might have a cached entry. It's interesting what he's doing to accomplish that actually, I'll imagine he is a network geek with a GNS3 lab bridged to the world, having a chain of routers with ip unnumbered interfaces passing it to each loopback along the way as he did. I just figured his laptop or workstation running dns3 reboots periodically unable to deal with real traffic hitting it like that. You can do interesting things with routing labs like that, just nothing you'd ever do in a real network. -mb On 09/26/2015 04:16 PM, Fabian Santiago wrote: > I just tried it. It's very much alive and well. Quite humorous. Perhaps your isp is proxying / caching you in some capacity ?? --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss