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[dns-wg] New on RIPE Labs: Is Your ISP Hijacking Your DNS Traffic?

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Pier Carlo Chiodi pierky at pierky.com
Wed Jul 6 16:07:30 CEST 2016

On 2016-07-06 14:21:53 CET, Max Grobecker wrote:
> And what answer do you get when asking for "whoami.akamai.net"? You'll get an A record with the IP address of the client that asked the authoritative DNS server.

It seems [1] that 10 probes out of 972, when asked for whoami.akamai.net via 8.8.8.8, receive an IP address not mentioned in Google Public DNS FAQ [2].

1] rough edges analysis of RIPE Atlas msm 4454125, please take it with a grain of salt!

2] https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq#support

Pier Carlo

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