[114876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS ed.gov translations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Thu May 28 20:38:30 2009
To: Peter Charbonneau <Peter.Charbonneau@williams.edu>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 28 May 2009 15:47:15 -0400."
<C0FCEA35-9D75-4841-8FF4-1E7A68C17C0B@williams.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 10:37:35 +1000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <C0FCEA35-9D75-4841-8FF4-1E7A68C17C0B@williams.edu>, Peter Charbonneau writes:
> Greetings,
>
> Periodically, we loose the capability of translating .ed.gov names.
>
> Today, it seems that it is www.dl.ed.gov and www.fafsa.ed.gov that
> will not translate.
>
> If I use dig .... I get:
>
> porthos2:~ pcharbon2$ dig +trace www.fafsa.ed.gov
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P1 <<>> +trace www.fafsa.ed.gov
> ;; global options: printcmd
> . 499251 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 499251 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 499251 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 499251 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 499251 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 499251 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 499251 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 499251 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 499251 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 499251 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 499251 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 499251 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> . 499251 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> ;; Received 488 bytes from 137.165.4.21#53(137.165.4.21) in 2 ms
>
> gov. 172800 IN NS E.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
> gov. 172800 IN NS G.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
> gov. 172800 IN NS A.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
> gov. 172800 IN NS B.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
> gov. 172800 IN NS C.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
> gov. 172800 IN NS D.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
> gov. 172800 IN NS F.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
> ;; Received 274 bytes from 192.203.230.10#53(E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 82
> ms
>
> ed.gov. 86400 IN NS eduptcdns02.ed.gov.
> ed.gov. 86400 IN NS eduftcdns01.ed.gov.
> ed.gov. 86400 IN NS eduftcdns02.ed.gov.
> ed.gov. 86400 IN NS eduptcdns01.ed.gov.
> ;; Received 202 bytes from 216.55.155.29#53(A.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM) in 84 ms
>
> dig: couldn't get address for 'eduftcdns01.ed.gov': not found
> porthos2:~ pcharbon2$
>
>
> It always seems to fail after the "third" lookup sequence.
>
> After about an hour (or two or eight) it starts working again for some
> period of time.
>
> I am out of troubleshooting tools and don't know where to go from
> here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> PeteC
>
>
> Peter Charbonneau
> Sr. Network and Systems Administrator
> Williams College
> (413) 597-3408 (office)
> (413) 822-2922 (cell)
> OIT will NEVER ask for your password!
What nameserver and version are you running?
What options do you have turned on in the nameserver?
What firewall settings do you have? Do you allow fragments
through?
Mark
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