Re: Supernews outage

["Devin P. Anderson" <devin () stargate net>]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Roy wrote:

> There seems to be some sort of failure of the root nameservers involving
> supernews.com.  No records are being returned.  Is this problem specific
> to supernews.com or are other domains affected?

I think it may have something to do with this:

root@camel:~> dig ns supernews.com @a.root-servers.net

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> ns supernews.com @a.root-servers.net 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10
;; flags: qr aa rd; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 0
;; QUESTIONS:
;;      supernews.com, type = NS, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
COM.    86400   SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. hostmaster.internic.NET. (
                        2000060501      ; serial
                        1800    ; refresh (30 mins)
                        900     ; retry (15 mins)
                        604800  ; expire (7 days)
                        86400 ) ; minimum (1 day)

;; Total query time: 79 msec
;; FROM: camel.hq.sgi.net to SERVER: a.root-servers.net  198.41.0.4
;; WHEN: Tue Jun  6 11:29:14 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 108

later-

devin