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Re: Anyone else having on and off problems with netscape.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Irving)
Fri May 19 17:28:29 2000

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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:25:39 -0500
From: Rick Irving <rirving@onecall.net>
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> Yes. Service loads, but it's REALLY slow.  But I don't think I would
> classify it as a DNS problem.

  I would.  :\

> 
> Using Dig: (What're you doing using NSlookup?! Shame on you! Plech!)
> 

  Heh. Would you feel better if I told you I started with
a SIGINT to named, and a grep'd through the output  ?

 :}

  However, I found the multiple response back from a single nslookup
query interesting.....

 :O


> [pbarber@host pbarber]$ dig home.netscape.com a
> ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> home.netscape.com a 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> home.netscape.com. 1m43s IN CNAME www-jp.netscape.com.
> www-jp.netscape.com. 16m55s IN A 64.236.8.10
> [snip]


  Actually, one might note that this appears to be leaking
in via central B'cast/UDP regions along the NAP's....

  Someone Colo a Japanese nameserver in JAM Space , or optionally,
a Japanese Root mirror ? At least one possible hypothesis ......

  BTW: About a week here, as well... (not years, for -us- anyway)

>


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