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Github pages

Github pages 404 if accessed by entering ip in browser address bar

When we enter hostname in browser address bar, after resolving hostname to ip, the browser also sends the hostname in http header to the resolved ip. This will enable using one ip to serve multiple websites.

# NOTE: use `dig githubutilities.github.io` to resolve hostname to ip(`103.245.222.133`)

curl -I 103.245.222.133
# vs
curl -I 103.245.222.133 --header "Host: githubutilities.github.io"

• Cannot access my GitHub Pages website by IP Address

Github routing

github.io pages is actually a CNAME to github.map.fastly.net., which is used by github to route the traffics.

Answer Section: Five output column fields in Answer Section

| NAME | TTL | CLASS | TYPE | IP |

TTL is use to cache the results.

• DNS Answer section

SOA: Is the zone synchronized to all my NS ?

check the serial number which will be incremented on each update of SOA response.

dig google.com +nssearch | cut -d ' ' -f 4 | sort | uniq -c

• 10 faq about dig

PTR: Reverse lookup a ip

Mail servers like AOL might use PTR records to verify incoming mail address identities.

# reverse dig ip
dig -x <ip>

'google.com ip redirecting is based on http headers(Location: http://www.google.com/`) baidu.com ip redirecting is based on http

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• dig command examples

DNS recursive lookup: Trace delegation path

using +trace option in dig

• 10 faq about dig

TYPE

• A - IPv4 IP address

• AAAA - IPv6 IP address

• CNAME - Canonical name record (Alias)

• NS - Name Servers

• MX - Mail eXchanges

• PTR - PoinTeR record. Pointer to a canonical name

• SOA - Start Of Authority. Authoritative information about a DNS zone

• TXT - text record

• About resource records by google

Basic terms about DNS

• Google Domains Help

visit google domain for more infos.

• understanding dig command
• dig syntax
• dns imple