[21352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [fjk].gtld-servers.net bogus for .com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Robb)
Thu Nov 12 01:37:15 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:03:20 -0500
To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
From: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811111732150.12077-100000@alive.znep.com>
At 17:53 11/11/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>[fjk] do _not_ serve domain names starting with [fjk]. All servers serve
>all names. Without knowing more, what you experienced could have had any
>number of causes.
Ah, thanks for the lesson. This is why I like NANOG even though I'm not a
network guru. I learn more about how the 'Net works all the time from here.
>I don't know when people first were aware of this, and I would hope some
>were aware before I complained ~1000PST and NSI should have been aware
>right away when it happened, since if they don't have automated checking
>of each server that has a very high notification priority they are even
>worse than stupid, so I'm somewhat doubtful it started at midnight. But
>it is possible. NSI does make it hard for anyone who may notice it to
>contact them.
That would have been around the right time...I had a few domains that were
dead when I tried them around 11pm EST and a ton of them that died after
midnight Eastern.
>false negatives. I know of three that were like that, and have had
>reports of more. Anyone asking one of those servers would be incorrectly
>told the domain doesn't exist.
That's exactly what I was seeing. One moment they were there, then when
next I tried to get a page, it was gone..."Cannot connect to server".
Thanks again for the instruction, O Wise One!
Spammers should be investigated by Ken Starr!
Dean Robb
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