Re: facebook lost their A-record for www.facebook.com?

["Octavio Alvarez" <alvarezp () alvarezp ods org>]

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:43:07 -0800, Igor Ybema <igor () ergens org> wrote:

> [igor@vds ~]$ host -t A  www.facebook.com ns1.facebook.com
> Using domain server:
> Name: ns1.facebook.com
> Address: 204.74.66.132#53
> Aliases:
>
> www.facebook.com has no A record

No, it's a subdomain with its A records in another server.

$ host -t A www.facebook.com glb1.facebook.com.
Using domain server:
Name: glb1.facebook.com.
Address: 69.171.239.10#53
Aliases:

www.facebook.com has address 69.171.224.12


Try dig +trace www.facebook.com to see why.



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