[outages] Google Resolver 8.8.8.8 Selectively responding to RDNS requests

[Blake McKeeby]

Hmm interesting, good point, never thought of that. 

If that is the case, then the conclusion would be that this issue is affecting more than just my X.X.X.1 but rather all source IPs whose hashed value is the same as my X.X.X.1? 



On May 23, 2014, at 3:56 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:

> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 03:31:42AM -0400,
> Blake McKeeby <blake.mckeeby at gmail.com> wrote 
> a message of 10 lines which said:
> 
>> Has anyone else seen this sort of selective response by Google? Do
>> they maintain some sort of black list?
> 
> I would suggest it is probably more load balancing by hashing the
> source IP address then a black hole.