[109650] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo DNS broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cat Okita)
Wed Dec 3 15:55:56 2008
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:47:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>
To: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <CBF5FAEB-D400-4D30-816B-E9A782E52666@daork.net>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Looks like some of akamai's nameservers have misplaced themselves and yahoo.
cheers!
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Nathan Ward wrote:
> There is no A records, correct.
> There is a CNAME though:
> www.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 45 IN CNAME www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com.
> www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 45 IN A 209.131.36.158
>
> On 4/12/2008, at 9:36 AM, Larry Daberko wrote:
>
>> I am unable to resolve www.yahoo.com. Tracing DNS back from the root
>> servers shows that www.yahoo.com is a CNAME to www.wa1.b.yahoo.com and
>> there are no A records for that hostname.
>>
>> Anyone have more details or a Yahoo contact? I'm unable to get to their
>> webpage as it is :-)
>>
>> -Larry Daberko
>> iServe Technologies
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> $ dig @ns1.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @ns1.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com
>> ; (1 server found)
>> ;; global options: printcmd
>> ;; Got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56431
>> ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
>> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;www.yahoo.com. IN A
>>
>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> www.yahoo.com. 300 IN CNAME www.wa1.b.yahoo.com.
>>
>> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>> wa1.b.yahoo.com. 300 IN NS yf1.yahoo.com.
>> wa1.b.yahoo.com. 300 IN NS yf2.yahoo.com.
>>
>> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>> yf1.yahoo.com. 1800 IN A 68.142.254.15
>> yf2.yahoo.com. 1800 IN A 68.180.130.15
>>
>> ;; Query time: 15 msec
>> ;; SERVER: 68.180.131.16#53(68.180.131.16)
>> ;; WHEN: Wed Dec 3 15:34:09 2008
>> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 123
>>
>>
>> but looking up the host itself gives no answer
>>
>>
>> $ dig @ns1.yahoo.com www.wa1.b.yahoo.com
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @ns1.yahoo.com www.wa1.b.yahoo.com
>> ; (1 server found)
>> ;; global options: printcmd
>> ;; Got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34875
>> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
>> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;www.wa1.b.yahoo.com. IN A
>>
>> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>> wa1.b.yahoo.com. 300 IN NS yf1.yahoo.com.
>> wa1.b.yahoo.com. 300 IN NS yf2.yahoo.com.
>>
>> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>> yf1.yahoo.com. 1800 IN A 68.142.254.15
>> yf2.yahoo.com. 1800 IN A 68.180.130.15
>>
>> ;; Query time: 15 msec
>> ;; SERVER: 68.180.131.16#53(68.180.131.16)
>> ;; WHEN: Wed Dec 3 15:35:07 2008
>> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 105
>>
>>
>>
>> !DSPAM:22,4936edf127844578318734!
>>
>>
>
> --
> Nathan Ward
>
>
>
>
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