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Re: Any Yahoo DNS admins on list?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nolan Berry)
Sat Jan 28 00:20:47 2017

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Nolan Berry <nolan.berry@RACKSPACE.COM>
To: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 00:34:52 +0000
In-Reply-To: <69e0bbe3-a21d-2051-c96e-172505a25f04@2mbit.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

There is a thread going on the outages mailing list talking about this issu=
e.  Seems to be no failures but increased latency to ns1.yahoo.com and ns3.=
yahoo.com with trace routes showing USA traffic hitting Asia on v6.

Nolan



> On Jan 27, 2017, at 6:30 PM, Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com> wrote:
>=20
> Hello!
>=20
> Don't suppose there's a Yahoo admin in the DNS department that can invest=
igate/debug a Geolocation issue?
>=20
> It appears that Yahoo's Geolocation is putting CenturyLink's IPv6 address=
es as being in .BR, causing not only the two CL/Qwest recursive servers (20=
5.171.2.65/205.171.3.65/2001:428::1/2001:428::2), but recusive servers host=
ed on biz customer IPv6 6RD ranges to return non-US Yahoo servers (and be a=
gonizingly slow).
>=20
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> View from local powerdns recursor, dual stacked, but preferring ipv6 for =
resolving:
>=20
> root@noc:~# dig mg.mail.yahoo.com @127.0.0.2
>=20
> ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u9-Debian <<>> mg.mail.yahoo.com @127.0.0.2
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50638
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>=20
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;mg.mail.yahoo.com.        IN    A
>=20
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mg.mail.yahoo.com.    1349    IN    CNAME    fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahoo=
dns.net.
> fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahoodns.net. 300 IN A    200.152.162.161
> fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahoodns.net. 300 IN A    200.152.162.135
>=20
> ;; Query time: 240 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.2#53(127.0.0.2)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 27 17:20:52 MST 2017
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 116
>=20
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> View from CL/Qwest IPv4 (likely dual stacked) and IPv6 recursors:
>=20
> root@noc:~# dig mg.mail.yahoo.com @205.171.2.65
>=20
> ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u9-Debian <<>> mg.mail.yahoo.com @205.171.2.65
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8308
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
>=20
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;mg.mail.yahoo.com.        IN    A
>=20
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mg.mail.yahoo.com.    758    IN    CNAME    fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahood=
ns.net.
> fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahoodns.net. 138 IN A    200.152.162.161
> fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahoodns.net. 138 IN A    200.152.162.135
>=20
> ;; Query time: 17 msec
> ;; SERVER: 205.171.2.65#53(205.171.2.65)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 27 17:21:35 MST 2017
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 127
>=20
>=20
> root@noc:~# dig mg.mail.yahoo.com @2001:428::1
>=20
> ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u9-Debian <<>> mg.mail.yahoo.com @2001:428::1
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24138
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
>=20
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;mg.mail.yahoo.com.        IN    A
>=20
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mg.mail.yahoo.com.    464    IN    CNAME    fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahood=
ns.net.
> fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahoodns.net. 214 IN A    200.152.162.161
> fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahoodns.net. 214 IN A    200.152.162.135
>=20
> ;; Query time: 46 msec
> ;; SERVER: 2001:428::1#53(2001:428::1)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 27 17:23:38 MST 2017
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 127
>=20
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> Google recursor for reference:
>=20
> root@noc:~# dig mg.mail.yahoo.com @8.8.8.8
>=20
> ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u9-Debian <<>> mg.mail.yahoo.com @8.8.8.8
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13327
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
>=20
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;mg.mail.yahoo.com.        IN    A
>=20
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mg.mail.yahoo.com.    1459    IN    CNAME    fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahoo=
dns.net.
> fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahoodns.net. 184 IN A    216.115.100.124
> fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahoodns.net. 184 IN A    208.71.44.31
> fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahoodns.net. 184 IN A    216.115.100.123
> fd-geoycpi-uno.gycpi.b.yahoodns.net. 184 IN A    208.71.44.30
>=20
> ;; Query time: 27 msec
> ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 27 17:21:59 MST 2017
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 159
>=20
>=20
>=20
> For reference, CL/Qwest's IPv6 range for 6RD is 2602::/24.
>=20
> This appears to be impacting Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Flickr, etc (aka Yahoo ow=
ned properties).
>=20
>=20
> Thanks!
>=20
> --=20
> Brielle Bruns
> The Summit Open Source Development Group
> http://www.sosdg.org    /     http://www.ahbl.org

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