From: jthomas@kolanut.mitre.org (Joe Thomas)
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 93 09:32:19 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Numeric IP address for ftp.eff.org?
Message-ID: <9308111631.AA02889@kolanut>
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Round Waffle wrote: 

> Possessed by The Unholy, David Heck scrawled the
> following in blood: 

> > would anyone happen to have the numeric ip address for eff.org or 

> > ftp.eff.org handy? 

> > I'd sure appreciate it....
> 

>      Both eff.org and ftp.eff.org resolve to 192.88.144.3,
> according to nslookup.
> 


But when you actually ftp to ftp.eff.org, the hostname reported is  
kragar.eff.org, and a traceroute there shows the endpoint's IP address as  
192.88.144.4.  Creative DNS administration...

mwunix> ftp ftp.eff.org
Connected to kragar.eff.org.
220 kragar.eff.org FTP server (Version 2.1WU(1) Thu May 20 15:21:04 EDT 1993)  
ready.

mwunix> traceroute ftp.eff.org
traceroute to kragar.eff.org (192.88.144.4), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  128.29.154.254 (128.29.154.254)  2 ms  2 ms  5 ms
 2  mwgw.mitre.org (128.29.18.251)  2 ms  2 ms  2 ms
 3  reston1gw.mitre.org (128.29.1.2)  4 ms  4 ms  4 ms
 4  reston2gw.mitre.org (128.29.100.253)  4 ms  4 ms  4 ms
 5  128.29.217.253 (128.29.217.253)  5 ms  5 ms  5 ms
 6  192.80.55.254 (192.80.55.254)  5 ms  5 ms  5 ms
 7  Falls-Church3.VA.ALTER.NET (137.39.61.1)  7 ms  13 ms  6 ms
 8  Washington.DC.ALTER.NET (137.39.128.1)  35 ms  16 ms  41 ms
 9  Boston1.MA.ALTER.NET (137.39.12.2)  22 ms  22 ms  24 ms
10  EFF-gw.ALTER.NET (137.39.25.2)  39 ms  22 ms  29 ms
11  kragar.eff.org (192.88.144.4)  26 ms  27 ms  29 ms
mwunix> 


Joe
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