I’ve learned a few things on an adventure this week, and I figure I should probably write them down. First off, AWS throttles the number of DNS queries you can perform on a VPC. Apparently you’re limited to 1,024 packets for Elastic Network Interface (ENI). I am a little unclear on if the limit is…
Tag: dns
Python DNS modules
My first python script involves doing some DNS lookups (for TXT records if that matters), and I am currently working through using the pydns module for this. Is this really the best DNS module to use for python though? For a start, it was last released in May 2002, and the documentation is somewhat sparse…
What’s happening with frozenchicken.com?
Gordon at work asks me what is happening with www.frozenchicken.com. If you hit the site, then you get the Google search interface. This is because of the DNS configuration for the domain: challenger:~# host www.frozenchicken.com www.frozenchicken.com is an alias for www.google.com. www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com. www.l.google.com has address 66.102.7.147 www.l.google.com has address 66.102.7.99…