Full Disclosure: Re: WTF

[Nick Boyce <nick.boyce () gmail com>]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Gustavo <gustavorobertux () gmail com> wrote:

> WTF ?
>
> notebook:~$ ping www.compusa.com
> PING bh.georedirector.akadns.net (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=1
> ttl=64 time=0.019 ms
Same here ... this time on Windows :

F:\>ping www.compusa.com

Pinging bh.georedirector.akadns.net [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

F:\>nslookup www.compusa.com
Server:  zzzz
Address:  999999999

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    bh.georedirector.akadns.net
Address:  127.0.0.1
Aliases:  www.compusa.com, compusa.syx.com.akadns.net


Normally I'd say that's a DNS config screwup, which would make them
unreachable (since their website is not on my system).  However,
Google seems to be able to reach them if you use the "site preview"
option in the search results :
http://www.google.com/search?q=www.compusa.com

Curious.

Relevant: http://forums.opendns.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=9721

Nick
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