Re: .org outage yesterday

From: James M Woods (jwoods@tucows.com)
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 15:04:58 EDT


That would be me. Let me raise it with them and I'll let you all know the
outcome.

Cheers,

James

On 7/2/04 2:44 PM, "Jeff Wasilko" <jeffw@smoe.org> wrote:

> .org was dead from large parts of the net yesterday for more than
> 2 hours:
>
> http://www.cymru.com/DNS/gtlddns-o.html
>
> This is at least the 2nd time this has happened (last time I have
> recorded is 10/16/2003).
>
> The outages on both occasions have been side-effects of the fancy
> anycast announcements that UltraDNS use for .org. They only
> include 2 hostnames in the NS records for .org:
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> org. 86400 IN NS TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET.
> org. 86400 IN NS TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET. 166716 IN A 204.74.112.1
> TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET. 74600 IN A 204.74.113.1
>
>
> Is there someone within Tucows/OpenSRS that has a relationship with PIR
> and could help bring this to their attention? .org shouldn't be less
> reliable than .com/.net, but since PIR.org took it over it has been MUCH
> less reliable.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -j



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