[21337] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: QUICKER FIX Re: [fjk].gtld-servers.net bogus for .com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Wed Nov 11 17:00:13 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Date: 11 Nov 1998 13:39:24 -0800
In-Reply-To: marcs@znep.com's message of 11 Nov 1998 12:58:22 -0800
> > Many thanks to my friend & cow-orker Tristan Horn for this
> > idea...in BIND 8 you can define servers as bogus (meaning
> > "don't ever trust these") as follows:
> >
> > // [fjkl].root-servers.net
> > server 192.5.5.241 { bogus yes; };
> > server 198.41.0.10 { bogus yes; };
> > server 193.0.14.129 { bogus yes; };
> > server 198.32.64.12 { bogus yes; };
i recommend against that.
> Note that f.gtld-servers.net was the long-running one giving real
> problems. [fjk].gtld-servers.net were the ones I saw giving false
> nxdomains at ~1000 pdt, [jk] were fixed by ~1030 and f was taken down
> ~1200. Two hours! Sheesh.
indeed.
> It appears to be fixed now. f.gtld-servers.net is down, a few others are
> giving referals to the .com nameservers (still "broken", but doesn't break
> things the same).
right.
> By fixed, I mean you shouldn't see false nxdomains and things should all
> resolve fine.
f.root-servers.net is FTP'ing its COM zone even as we speak. AXFR to
a.root-servers.net is giving wierd results. i'll be fetching the zone
manually until we find the smoking gun.
--
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
