PIR.org have risen to their level of incompetence. It is a laughing
stock with companies such as cisco, etc. From what I hear, no one
really has a relationship with them, just court appearances.
Jeff Wasilko 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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