;; ANSWER SECTION:
ocsp.apple.com. 3593 IN CNAME ocsp-lb.apple.com.akadns.net.
ocsp-lb.apple.com.akadns.net. 53 IN CNAME ocsp.g.aaplimg.com.
ocsp.g.aaplimg.com. 8 IN A 17.253.21.201
ocsp.g.aaplimg.com. 8 IN A 17.253.119.201
"ocsp-lb.apple.com.akadns.net" is an entry indicating DNS based load balancing, done by Akamai.
Even with lots of redundancy, there are still lots of ways all that can fall over. You can have a batch of servers that soft-fail: they're not responding to real queries but the load balancer thinks they're healthy.
Even with lots of redundancy, there are still lots of ways all that can fall over. You can have a batch of servers that soft-fail: they're not responding to real queries but the load balancer thinks they're healthy.