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Created February 3, 2014 11:08
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Freenode apparently trying to mitigate a dDoS attack by redirecting users to themselves
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% dig A chat.freenode.net
; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P2 <<>> A chat.freenode.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53775
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;chat.freenode.net. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
chat.freenode.net. 711 IN A 83.170.73.249
chat.freenode.net. 711 IN A 127.0.0.2
chat.freenode.net. 711 IN A 38.229.70.20
chat.freenode.net. 711 IN A 82.96.64.4
chat.freenode.net. 711 IN A 208.80.155.68
chat.freenode.net. 711 IN A 128.237.157.136
chat.freenode.net. 711 IN A 213.92.8.4
chat.freenode.net. 711 IN A 127.0.0.1
;; Query time: 22 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.254#53(192.168.2.254)
;; WHEN: Mon Feb 3 12:07:52 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 174
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glaslos commented Feb 3, 2014

irc.freenode.net has a CNAME to chat.freenode.net
They changed the target now to 208.80.155.68

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