[92017] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spain was offline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Sep 1 00:55:06 2006
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:53:41 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> * From: Sean Donelan
> * Date: Wed Aug 30 20:02:13 2006
>
>>On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Gunther Stammwitz wrote:
>>
>> Spain (at least the .es-part) was offline nobody reported it...?
>> What's going on? In the past you were faster...
>
>DNS operational problems were briefly discussed on the DNS operations
>mailing list earlier.
hannigan@ghostbusters> host ns1.nic.es
ns1.nic.es has address 194.69.254.1
hannigan@ghostbusters> host ns2.nic.es
ns2.nic.es has address 194.69.254.38
hannigan@ghostbusters> host www.nic.es
www.nic.es has address 194.69.254.54
hannigan@ghostbusters> host www.red.es
www.red.es is an alias for web.red.es.
web.red.es has address 194.69.254.50
No idea what happened, and I don't read spanish,
but the network configuration infers the registry(auth)
and the registrar(nic) are one in the same. No surprise in
the ccTLD. They are responsible for the uptime.
There is a comment period taking place related
to the ICANN IANA root zone checks. This made me think of it.
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-18aug06.htm
-M<
[ ObOffTopic: Maybe Paris Hilton can teach then about "separation"?]
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