Re: www.etrade.com has no DNS A record !

[jlewis () lewis org]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Kai Schlichting wrote:

> Expect some major customer complaints about this one: www.etrade.com has
> no A record, and all other addresses are redirected to that very name.
>
> I just sent this to Etrade:
>
> > Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:09:56 -0500
> > To: mstallcop () ETRADE COM, postmaster () etrade com, sales () etrade com, info () etrade com, noc () etrade com
> > Subject: www.etrade.com has no DNS A record !
> >
> > I am seeing customer complaints this morning that they can't reach Etrade.
> > Check: your ns1 and ns2 nameservers DO NOT have an address record (A) for
> > www.etrade.com !!!!!!!!

It's not just www.  trading.etrade.com (where you end up after logging in)
normally does have it's own set of A records, but has also vanished from
ns1 and ns2.etrade.com.  Also, it looks like most of the slaves have
updated and now also have incomplete etrade.com zones.

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