Comcast DNS/POP performance question

[Brian J. Conway]

On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 22:37:03 -0400
Robert La Ferla <robertlaferla at comcast.net> wrote:

> Since Comcast uses a single hostname for their POP server, are they 
> doing a DNS trick to route regional traffic to different IP addresses 
> for multiple POP servers?  e.g.  Boston's pop.comcast.net resolves to 
> xxx.xxx.xxx.1 and California's resolves to xxx.xxx.xxx.2, etc... Or are 
> they really using a simple powerful POP server to handle all the traffic
> 
> for comcast.net?  I ask this because if they are doing a DNS trick and 
> you don't use their DNS servers, performance can suffer.  Anyone know 
> the facts?

[bconway at ladyluck /]$ host mail.comcast.net
mail.comcast.net has address 204.127.202.10
mail.comcast.net has address 216.148.227.80
mail.comcast.net has address 63.240.76.10
mail.comcast.net has address 204.127.198.10

Don't know if they're doing anything by region, but I've had no issues
connecting.

Brian J. Conway
bconway at alum.wpi.edu

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