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compaq.com no longer resolveable
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Joffe)
Thu Jun 8 00:36:30 2000
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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 21:34:20 -0700
From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
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For those of you who may have missed it, it appears that compaq.com has
disappeared from the .com root. Not only a.root, but f.gtld etc...
[rjoffe@zephyr rjoffe]$ dig @a.root-servers.net compaq.com
; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> @a.root-servers.net compaq.com
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; compaq.com, type = A, class = IN
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
COM. 1D IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
hostmaster.internic.NET. (
2000060700 ; serial
30M ; refresh
15M ; retry
1W ; expiry
1D ) ; minimum
;; Total query time: 97 msec
;; FROM: centergate.com to SERVER: a.root-servers.net 198.41.0.4
;; WHEN: Wed Jun 7 21:31:40 2000
;; MSG SIZE sent: 28 rcvd: 105
It appears not to be a payment problem...
$ swhois compaq.com
Query: compaq.com
Registry: whois.networksolutions.com
Results:
Registrant:
Compaq Computer Corporation (COMPAQ-DOM)
20555 State Highway 249, M020303
Houston, TX 77070
Domain Name: COMPAQ.COM
<snip>
Record last updated on 15-May-2000.
Record expires on 21-Apr-2001.
Record created on 20-Apr-1995.
Database last updated on 7-Jun-2000 15:54:38 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1-PUBLIC.ZTX.COMPAQ.COM 161.114.1.204
NS1-PUBLIC.ZMA.COMPAQ.COM 161.114.64.24
I found a recursive server with the ttl not yet expired showing
C:\>nslookup www.compaq.com
Server: vnsc-pri.sys.gtei.net
Address: 4.2.2.1
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.compaq.com
Address: 207.18.199.3
You may want to warn your customer service reps... and use 207.18.199.3
--
Rodney Joffe
CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
http://www.centergate.com
"Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(SM)
