[82109] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: DNS .US outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Fri Jul 8 15:58:18 2005
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:40:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <B6621ED4D0AD394BBA73CA657DFD89764A4372@MSPEXBE01.wamnet.inc>
To: "Church, Chuck" <cchurch@netcogov.com>
Cc: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Church, Chuck wrote:
>
> Thanks for your help, guys. Didn't know dig existed for windows.
> Several ISPs (charter.net, alter.net) are choking on .us queries right
the alter.net cache's you are using arent' guaranteed to work...
especially for non-customers :) but... in general they do work, sometimes
slowly as all manner of people use them regardless of their 'customer'
status to alternet :(
> Is it possible that one of the authoritative servers for .us is
> unreachable/down at the moment, at least from name server 24.197.96.16's
> point of view? 198.6.1.2 gives similar results.
>
I'm not seeing these problems though (though that problem might have been
transient too)
; <<>> DiG 8.4 <<>> us ns @cache02.ns.uu.net
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch no-nibble2
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9205
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; us, type = NS, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
us. 6D IN NS c.gtld.biz.
us. 6D IN NS a.gtld.biz.
us. 6D IN NS b.gtld.biz.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.gtld.biz. 5d20h12m3s IN A 209.173.53.162
b.gtld.biz. 5d20h12m3s IN A 209.173.57.162
c.gtld.biz. 5d20h12m3s IN A 209.173.60.65
;; Total query time: 144 msec
