[97attendees] Room DNS not of high fidelity

[Adam Roach <[e-mail]>]

Just as a warning --

The circuits in the hotel rooms (at least, as of Saturday morning) 
appear to be local circuits rather than the normal IETF infrastructure. 
Normally, this wouldn't be notable, but the DNS servers don't appear to 
necessarily be doing things correctly. I noticed this when I tried to go 
to http://www.homedepot.com this morning, and was greeted with an error 
message.

What's really odd is that the name "www.homedepot.com" was resolving to 
a Korean IP address (123.215.198.10). After bringing up my VPN, i was 
able to get to the correct web site just fine.

So if you're seeing strange behavior in the rooms, you probably want to 
either use a VPN or manually configure your DNS to use a known-good server.

/a


P.S. I suspect there's an object lesson in here about DNSSEC, but I'm 
not entirely sure what it is.