I've been having trouble getting to cdn.sstatic.net
all day. It's been crippling not to be able to play Stack Exchange!
Chrome's resource panel was showing 'host not found' for cdn.sstatic.net
.
I think I've tracked it down to this:
I have IPv6 connectivity and my machine is querying for AAAA
records first. Here's how it goes:
[michael@challenger:~]$ host -t ANY cdn.sstatic.net 8.8.8.8
cdn.sstatic.net is an alias for sstatic.net.cdn.cloudflare.net.
OK, a CNAME, let's follow that:
[michael@challenger:~]$ host -t AAAA sstatic.net.cdn.cloudflare.net 8.8.8.8
Host sstatic.net.cdn.cloudflare.net not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Whoah! That's not good. NXDOMAIN means that domain doesn't exist. That's not right. Let's try a different domain to see what should be happening:
[michael@challenger:~]$ host -t AAAA serverfault.com 8.8.8.8
serverfault.com has no AAAA record
Not sure what exactly is going on here, but someone needs to fix something.
Could be lame referrals: http://dns.squish.net/traverses/90336bfcff65c12ee97d57f05e0ce2df/detail
It's been crippling not to be able to play Stack Exchange!
The only winning move is not to
...aww, yeah, okay.