DNS resolving problem with www.intel.com, www.nvidia.com

[Hans den Otter]

> Hi
>
> I am running several different DNSes and i am having problem resolving IP 
> addresses with www.intel.com, www.apple.com, www.nvidia.com .
>
> [root at mail ~]# nslookup
>> www.nvidia.com
> Server:         127.0.0.1
> Address:        127.0.0.1#53
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> www.nvidia.com  canonical name = www.nvidia.com.edgesuite.net.
> www.nvidia.com.edgesuite.net    canonical name = a1650.g.akamai.net.
> Name:   a1650.g.akamai.net
> Address: 213.144.186.7
> Name:   a1650.g.akamai.net
> Address: 213.144.186.14
>> exit
>
> [root at mail ~]# ping www.nvidia.com
> PING a1650.g.akamai.net (213.144.186.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
>
> --- a1650.g.akamai.net ping statistics ---
> 27 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 25996ms
>
> I seems that only akamai.net resolves wrong


Nothing wrong,
Your looking at Edgesuite 
http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/edgesuite.html which is service of 
Akamai.
They use HTTP redirect to get you to the nearest webserver.
So you can not ping the webserver of Nvidia or Intel in this way.