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Re: Problems with NS*.worldnic.com

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Tue Apr 26 09:23:37 2005

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:22:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <1114503272.24896.TMDA@mercury.zynet.net>
To: Simon Waters <simonw@zynet.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu



On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Simon Waters wrote:

> Have to say we see no issues here with the worldnic.com nameservers, other
> than they appear to be located on the same physical network.
>
> I think people should post queries that fail, including date/time, and full
> "dig" output for that query from the server they used, and the version of
> recursive nameserver used. Otherwise it is purely speculative guess work to
> figure out if it is a DNS delegation issue, or something else (network
> congestion?).

I think I suggested similar yesterday as did Mr. Bush.

> The worldnic.com and worldnic.net appear to use the YYYYMMDDVV convention for
> SOA serial numbers, and so it would appear nothing has changed their end in
> terms of zone data for at least five months in terms of zone file settings.

Interesting, I thought the worldnic.com servers were NSI's 'free hosting
for domains you registered through us' servers, which would imply they get
changed 'frequently' no?

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