They don't have an A record for nasa.gov. For those who don't have dig (or don't care enough to do an actual DNS request and would rather trust some other, les

They don't have an A record for nasa.gov. For those who don't have dig (or don't care enough to do an actual DNS request and would rather trust some other, lesser tool): $ dig nasa.gov ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P2-RedHat-9.6.1-7.P2.fc11 <<>> nasa.gov ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40211 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;nasa.gov. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: nasa.gov. 300 IN SOA ns1.nasa.gov. dns.nasa.gov. 2008043229 10800 1200 3600000 14400 No A records. $ dig www.nasa.gov ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P2-RedHat-9.6.1-7.P2.fc11 <<>> www.nasa.gov ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22541 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 9, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.nasa.gov. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.nasa.gov. 300 IN CNAME www.nasa.gov.speedera.net. www.nasa.gov.speedera.net. 120 IN CNAME www.nasa.gov.edgesuite.net. www.nasa.gov.edgesuite.net. 21600 IN CNAME a1718.x.akamai.net. a1718.x.akamai.net. 20 IN A 64.81.79.72 a1718.x.akamai.net. 20 IN A 64.81.79.70 Looks like the whole site is served through Akamai too. What's a "direct @ url" ? Now we're overloading the @ for something else too?