largedownloads DNS (was: Client Patch is Up bf2patch_v_102)

[ScratchMonkey]

--On Friday, July 15, 2005 8:14 PM -0400 Jon Wolberg 
<jon at defenderhosting.com> wrote:

> They use a distributed round-robin DNS scheme for their FTP server.  It
> won't show up for everyone cause it's not on all the machines yet.

It's not round-robin. It seems to be geographical, using Akami. I tried dig 
from several locations and got different answers. When I couldn't reach the 
file on the server from one location, I just plugged an IP from another 
location that worked into the hosts file and got through.

>From northern California:

largedownloads.ea.com.  3600    IN      CNAME 
largedownloads.ea.com.akadns.net.
largedownloads.ea.com.akadns.net. 300 IN A      159.153.197.99
largedownloads.ea.com.akadns.net. 300 IN A      159.153.197.74

This one shows two servers that are returned round-robin.

>From Kansas City:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
largedownloads.ea.com.  3600    IN      CNAME 
largedownloads.ea.com.akadns.net.
largedownloads.ea.com.akadns.net. 300 IN A      159.153.229.71

I'm betting there are other servers for the east coast, Europe, and Asia.