problem with www.xbox.com / akamai

[niels=cluenet at bakker.net]

* dougb at dougbarton.us (Doug Barton) [Sat 14 Jun 2014, 19:03 CEST]:
>It's not just you, I'm experiencing the same from both a FreeBSD and 
>an Ubuntu host on dramatically different networks (one in LA, one in 
>Omaha). What's more interesting to me is that 'ping www.xbox.com' 
>works, as does 'ping6 www.yahoo.com' which has just as many CNAMEs 
>in its chain (albeit they are not going to Akamai).

The problem isn't the amount of CNAMEs, the problem is Microsoft's 
broken nameserver implementation.

Compare 'dig +trace a www.xbox.com' with 'dig +trace aaaa www.xbox.com'.
Basic DNS troubleshooting.

If you ping at most 300 seconds before you ping6 the latter will 
succeed, if you start from an empty cache and ping6 first, it will 
fail to resolve until you ping.


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