[28128] in North American Network Operators' Group
NetSol screwing the pooch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Germann)
Thu Apr 13 21:39:02 2000
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From: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>
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In trying to track down why an old DNS server dies I found the following
interesting stuff for the [a-i].root-servers.net over a two-hour sample
period ...
Server COM. .
a 2000041300 2000041300
b no answer no answer
c no answer no answer
d answer with ref 2000041300
e 2000041300 2000041300
f 2000041201 2000041300
g 2000041101 2000041101
h answer with ref 2000041101
i 2000041300 2000041300
So I thought the purpose of multiple DNS servers was to have mirroring for
redundancy. Does anyone find 1-2 day lags in the updates acceptable? I'm
glad NetSol is moving these to commercial grade data centers. :(
The no answers are pingable but don't answer queries from here (over a two
hour period). The answer with ref answered with referrals to other
servers. I don't have the patience to recurse the whole mess of
*.gtld-servers.net.
Any other observations other than NetSol has apparently screwed the pooch
again ?
Eric
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