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Re: ad.doubleclick.net missing from DNS?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Tue Jul 27 13:27:13 2004

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:26:06 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0407271233060.21303@clifden.donelan.com>
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Once upon a time, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> said:
> The A record for ad.doubleclick.net is missing from DNS.  This is
> causing apparent web page slowdowns when viewing web sites containing ads
> linked to ad.doubleclick.net

It looks like the problem isn't that the A record is missing, it is that
the nameservers are missing:

ask(ad.doubleclick.net)(A): ns1.doubleclick.net ns2.doubleclick.net ns3.doubleclick.net ns4.doubleclick.net
;; send_udp(216.73.86.10:53)
;; send_udp(216.73.87.10:53)
;; send_udp(216.73.85.10:53)
;; send_udp(216.73.81.10:53)
;; send_udp(216.73.86.10:53)
;; send_udp(216.73.87.10:53)
;; send_udp(216.73.85.10:53)
;; send_udp(216.73.81.10:53)
;; send_udp(216.73.86.10:53)
;; send_udp(216.73.87.10:53)
;; send_udp(216.73.85.10:53)
;; send_udp(216.73.81.10:53)
ad.doubleclick.net: query timed out

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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