{"id":7279,"date":"2005-04-07T18:32:33","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T01:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/04\/07\/whats-in-a-name-16.html"},"modified":"2005-04-07T18:32:33","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T01:32:33","slug":"whats_in_a_name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/07\/whats_in_a_name.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a lot when some nasty hacks over the last week or so on DNS servers are keeping people from getting name resolution to IP addresses.  Which starts making things intermittently accessible, and (possibly) leads to Comcast having nationwide broadband problems with <em>their <\/em>DNS services (according to their tech support people).    Which means that getting to an actual website has been horribly flaky for us at home this evening (though, if we knew all the actual IP addresses, we&#8217;d be golden).<\/p>\n<p>Bleah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a lot when some nasty hacks over the last week or so on DNS servers are keeping people from getting name resolution to IP addresses. Which starts making things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16342,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/05\/great-googley-moogley-google-dns-benchmarks.html","url_meta":{"origin":7279,"position":0},"title":"Great Googley-Moogley &#8211; Google DNS benchmarks","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-Dec-09 2:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I ran a copy of DNSBench to see how the new, shiny Google DNS servers compare to other alternatives that I have. 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