[82095] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS .US outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Fri Jul 8 15:52:36 2005
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:59:35 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <BEF2097F.B9ABA%rjoffe@centergate.com>
To: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Rodney Joffe wrote:
> On 7/6/05 10:00 PM, "Church, Chuck" <cchurch@netcogov.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks. Didn't have any *NIX boxes laying around to 'dig' any deeper.
> > When I checked networksolutions' whois for neosystems.us and state.ny.us
> > , both returned:
> > " We are unable to process your request at this time. Please try again
> > later."
> >
> > Figured something was up.
>
> You meant this in passing only, right? You clearly did not intend to
> correlate an issue with .us DNS with whois data for .us, right?
also, with the helping-out of PCH and neustar I believe these TLD boxen
are actually anycast around quite some bit... though I could be mistaken
about that since the hotel in boston (ATT) sees the same path as the
office in ashburn (UUNET) ...