- TehAttak
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Here's something interesting to munch on:
I ran some WHOIS queries and traceroutes on this new site versus the current bungie.com/bungie.net, and found some interesting discrepancies.
Bungie.net (as well as subdomains admin and seventhcolumn) along with bungie.com are tied to the single IP address 65.59.234.97. The traceroute ties these IPs to the Seattle area. All the bungie.com/net DNS servers are held by Bungie--i.e., ns.bungie.com, ns2.bungie.com, etc.
Downloads.bungie.net is tied to 97.74.27.18, which resolves to the domain secureserver.net, which in turn is tied to lightedge.com, a server hosting company. Makes sense, as this is probably a CDN of sorts. The traceroute goes to the Dallas area.
What boggles my mind is bungieaerospace.com (173.201.53.184) is tied to that same server farm (Lightedge). It's also worth noting that bungieaerospace.com is registered through GoDaddy, while all the other Bungie sites go through Network Solutions.
Both Downloads and Aerospace show their ISP as Godaddy, Inc. but all the others are on Level3. Aerospace's NS is a public server from Domaincontrol.com, leading me to believe Godaddy has the nameservers.
Probably just Bungie changing their ISP/server hosting after their breakup with MS, but my ARG-detection/other big thing radar is going off a bit.
EDIT: It just seems weird to me that something that's shaking out to be huge is not being hosted on Bungie's own servers, and isn't being controlled by Bungie's servers... perhaps that is evidence to this not being a huge deal after all.
[Edited on 05.17.2010 4:51 PM PDT]