[10940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root nameserver problems ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Thu Jul 17 15:43:49 1997
To: Daniel R Ehrlich <ehrlich@cse.psu.edu>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:01:11 EDT."
<199707171401.KAA09582@cse.psu.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:09:17 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
> Can I assume that the fact that www.microsoft.com no longer exists in the
> DNS is a result of the (ongoing) root nameserver problems?
No.
> Things have been really flaky since the INTERNIC/ALTERNIC flap the other day.
Indeed, but not the way you think.
> daneel:8> dig www.microsoft.com @e.root-server.net
you are asking a nonrecursive server for data it doesn't have.
> ; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> www.microsoft.com @e.root-server.net
> ; Bad server: e.root-server.net -- using default server and timer opts
in fact you are asking a nonexistent server, so it used your default one.
[gw.home:i386] dig @a.root-servers.net microsoft.com ns | grep IN
;; microsoft.com, type = NS, class = IN
microsoft.com. 2D IN NS DNS1.microsoft.com.
microsoft.com. 2D IN NS DNS3.NWNET.NET.
microsoft.com. 2D IN NS DNS4.NWNET.NET.
microsoft.com. 2D IN NS ATBD.microsoft.com.
DNS1.microsoft.com. 2D IN A 131.107.1.240
DNS3.NWNET.NET. 2D IN A 192.220.250.7
DNS4.NWNET.NET. 2D IN A 192.220.251.7
ATBD.microsoft.com. 2D IN A 131.107.1.7
