GeorgeWBush.com => http://65.172.163.222/ for Europeans

[German-Lefty]

Yesterday there was a post regarding Bush's website blocking Europeans. It looks like all they were doing was playing with DNS.

Apparently they map the DNS www.georgewbush.com to 56.172.163.222, in Europe, and this address gives an HTTP 403. If you just put in this IP though it works http://65.172.163.222/.

Who knows what they're really up to!?!

Would somebody please do a DNS lookup in the US and tell me if it maps to one of these two addresses.

Anyway a hacker interested in disrupting www.georgewbush.com, would be smart to hit 65.172.163.222. I doubt they sold too many people with that site.

If this clown can't keep his website up and running, how the hell is he supposed to protect and manage the country?

[sui generis]

1. it looks like a transposition error

the 65.172 was transposed to 56.172 ?

[rocktivity]

2. The official explanation was to save money

But I understand there are seven million Americans living abroad who are eligible to vote!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Triana]

3. 65.172.163.222

nslookup georgewbush.com


Non-authoritative answer:
Name: georgewbush.com
Address: 65.172.163.222

[high density]

4. From where I'm sitting it looks like it's hosted by Akamai

Which means that the name resolves to a different IP address according to your location so that your request hits a fairly local server.

http://www.akamai.com/en/html/technology/edgeplatform.html

[mcg]

5. I see: a1289.g.akamai.net [63.240.199.199]

ping www.whitehouse.gov

Pinging a1289.g.akamai.net <63.240.199.199> with 32 bytes of data: