[20550] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WARNING: AOL is hosed (again)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Borchers)
Fri Oct 16 15:04:21 1998
From: "Mark Borchers" <markb@infi.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:46:38 -0400
Reply-to: markb@infi.net
In-reply-to: <362789EB.9566D40B@cisco.com>
Yep, somebody modified the delegation via a forged domain
modification email. An emergency root server update has been done to
correct the problem.
Meanwhile, DNS1 and DNS2.AUTONET.NET are going to temporarily act
authoritatively for AOL.COM until the ttl expires.
On 16 Oct 98, at 13:01, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Just for those who aren't aware yet, all your mail to aol.com is about
> to bounce.
>
> sprunk@pegasus:~> host -t ns aol.com c.root-servers.net
> Using domain server:
> Name: c.root-servers.net
> Address: 192.33.4.12
> Aliases:
>
> aol.com name server DNS2.AUTONET.NET
> aol.com name server DNS1.AUTONET.NET
>
> sprunk@pegasus:~> host -t mx aol.com dns.autonet.net
> Error in looking up server name:
> Host not found.
>
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Mark Borchers
Network Engineering Dept.
Network Two Communications Group
