Re: .org outage yesterday

From: James M Woods (jwoods@tucows.com)
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 22:28:33 EDT


Michael,

Harsh and way off mark. PIR is pretty responsive to issues which are
actually brought forward to them. Their court docket is pretty light
compared to some other registries :-S

Play nice now ;)

James

On 7/2/04 6:18 PM, "Michael Dean" <michaelldean@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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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