[21333] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [fjk].gtld-servers.net bogus for .com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (steve@altrina.exodus.net)
Wed Nov 11 16:38:12 1998
From: steve@altrina.exodus.net
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:06:33 -0800
To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811111012440.12077-100000@alive.znep.com>; from Marc Slemko on Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 10:20:18AM -0800
Yes.. I'm hearing tons of complaints about this.. and its still broken
at this time, [f jkl] root-servers.net are not correctly responding
correctly and causing a lot of problems on the Internet as a whole.
Many people have sent mail to NetSol about the issue.. but no statments
have come from them (that I have seen).. Anyone have any information?
-Steve
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 10:20:18AM -0800, Marc Slemko wrote:
> [fjk].gtld-servers.net (which are listed as authoritative for .com) are
> giving bogus authoritative nxdomain results for all the .com domains I
> tried. eg.
>
> ; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> internic.com @f.gtld-servers.net
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 0
> ;; QUESTIONS:
> ;; internic.com, type = A, class = IN
>
> ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
> COM. 86400 SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET. (
> 1998111000 ; serial
> 1800 ; refresh (30 mins)
> 900 ; retry (15 mins)
> 604800 ; expire (7 days)
> 86400 ) ; minimum (1 day)
>
> ;; Total query time: 67 msec
> ;; FROM: valis.worldgate.com to SERVER: f.gtld-servers.net 207.159.77.18
> ;; WHEN: Wed Nov 11 11:17:16 1998
> ;; MSG SIZE sent: 30 rcvd: 107
>
>
> f.root-servers.net is giving non-authoritative "sorry, I don't do that,
> here are the nameservers for .com" responses.
>
> I have sent mail to the InterNIC, but just in case you were wondering why
> you are seeing what you may be seeing. Symptoms of this problem are being
> told by your resolver that various domains do not exist once in a while.
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