[10898] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root nameserver problems ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Jul 17 08:46:16 1997
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>
To: hostmaster@mci.net
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 08:13:59 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707171151.HAA21478@nomad.reston.mci.net> from "MCI Hostmaster" at Jul 17, 97 07:51:03 am
> - From our vantage point, it looks like most of the root nameservers
> have bad delegation data. Most of them return no delegation info
> for what should be working domains:
COM. and NET. zone files were corrupted.
a-g were affected by this corruption, h-i did not take the
corrupted update (perhaps they're otherwise broken), and j-m
do not serve the affected zones.
a was finally corrected at 6:55am, and admins of b-g
were asked to reload their zones. It appears that none
of said admins have done so to date.
> To enable our resolvers to work properly, we've had to tell them
> to ignore the root nameservers which appear to have bad data.
> On a Bind 4.X system, one can do this with the 'bogusns' configuration
> directive:
>
> bogusns 128.9.0.107&255.255.255.255 192.33.4.12&255.255.255.255
> 128.8.10.90&255.255.255.255 192.203.230.10&255.255.255.255
> 192.5.5.241&255.255.255.255 192.112.36.4&255.255.255.255
> 198.41.0.10&255.255.255.255 193.0.14.129&255.255.255.255
> 198.32.64.12&255.255.255.255 198.32.65.12&255.255.255.255
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 146428 A 198.41.0.10
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 146428 A 193.0.14.129
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 146428 A 198.32.64.12
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 146428 A 198.32.65.12
should all be fine, so please remove them from your list.
--jhawk
