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invalid SOA record? or just unusual
by DV 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

Hello nanog, Hopefully someone will have some input here on this DNS problem and why it is happening. I have just uncovered what seems to be a misconfiguration in an SOA record. This causes the domain to be unable to be resolved via a few of my DNS servers. It seems to work everywhere else I check it just fine, except for these two DNS servers. One of these DNS servers is Win 2003 and the other is the standard latest RHEL6 bind 9.8.2.blah-blah so I don't think it would be a bug that affects both. They are both behind a NAT Firewall gateway which could also be causing problems by inspecting DNS traffic... Below is the SOA record in question for the site that cannot be resolved by our name servers. Particluarly the "." in place of the authoritative server which seems to be a mis-config and I am not sure the reason for it. # dig soa rapportive.com ; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.4 <<>> @172.20.20.254 soarapportive.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33703 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;rapportive.com. IN SOA ;; ANSWER SECTION:rapportive.com. 3600 IN SOA . hostmaster.rapportive.com. 2013041614 3600 3600 3600 3600 ;; Query time: 54 msec ;; SERVER: 172.20.20.254#53(172.20.20.254) ;; WHEN: Tue Oct 15 16:49:57 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 78 Thanks for any help, I would be grateful for any suggestions at all... Perhaps someone does the same thing with their SOA records? DV

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Re: 15 Years ago today….
by Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

On 10/15/2013 23:56, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: > On 10/15/2013 23:13, Rodney Joffe wrote: >> ... we lost Jon. >> >> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt > I'd like to post this to Facebook. I commented on FB, far less eloquently. Interesting, isn't it--how many (r)evolutionary cycles we have been through, and what a different world we are in now, with nary a Teletype--not even a glass one--to be found. And yet MOST of the people that did the early work are still alive. Sadly, some are not.

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Re: 15 Years ago today….
by Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

On 10/15/2013 23:13, Rodney Joffe wrote: > ... we lost Jon. > > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt > > <sigh> > > Given the number of young people in the community who, last year, said "Who?", maybe its time to stop the reminders. NO. We have developed a fetish for forgetting things we should remember--RESIST. Please. > This world is *so* different to the way it was. Getting old sucks. BoyHowdy, you've got that right. I'd like to post this to Facebook.

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[NANOG-announce] 2013 NANOG Committee Selections
by Steven Feldman 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

NANOG Colleagues, The Board has completed the committee selection process for this year. For the Program Committee, we are pleased to announce the reappointments of Greg Hankins, Manish Karir, Michael Sinatra, and Tony Tauber, and the new appointments of Peter Hoose, Randy Neals, Matthew Petach, and Steven Schecter for two-year terms. In addition, Paul Ebersman and Sean Kennedy have been appointed to one-year terms to fill the positions vacated by Dave Temkin and Ryan Donnelly on their election to the Board. For the Communications Committee, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Randy Epstein and Brad Raymo for two-year terms. And for the Development Committee, we are pleased to announce the two-year term appointment of Judy DeDois, Tim Parker, Michael Rascoe, and Valerie Wittkop to two-year terms, and Fearghas McKay to a one-year term to fill the position vacated by Jezzibell Gilmore on her election to the Board. We also want to thank and recognize the contribution of Jim Cowie, Ryan Donnelly, Igor Gashinsky, Mohit Lad, Dave Temkin, and Dani Roisman for their service on the Program Committee, Valerie Wittkop and Webster Olson for their service on the Communications Committee, and Paul Ebersman and Jezzibell Gilmore for their service on the Development Committee. And finally, we want to thank everyone who volunteered as candidates for these committees for considering this important service to our community, and encourage them to try for the next selection cycle or to volunteer in another role. On behalf of the Board, Steve Feldman, vice-chair _______________________________________________ NANOG-announce mailing list NANOG-announce(a)mailman.nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-announce

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REMINDER: Error messages should include parameters
by Jay Ashworth 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Off the Yahoo MX discussion, just a reminder for those who write code: *Always* include the parameters in the error message; pronouns and implicit references are Evil, Bad and Wrong. The 30 seconds you take to add the actual name of what you can't find/talk to could save some sysadmin *weeks* (I am not making that up; something once took me weeks). We now return you to your normal router configuration conversations. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra(a)baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274

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Re: REMINDER: Error messages should include parameters
by Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

On 10/15/2013 17:17, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Off the Yahoo MX discussion, just a reminder for those who write code: > > *Always* include the parameters in the error message; pronouns and > implicit references are Evil, Bad and Wrong. The 30 seconds you take to > add the actual name of what you can't find/talk to could save some sysadmin > *weeks* (I am not making that up; something once took me weeks). > > We now return you to your normal router configuration conversations. Back in the day we only had room for about 4 digits--but there was a your-longevity-here-is-dependent-on-it binder for every run-unit that listed every error code in numerical order that gave a narrative description of what had failed AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. Seems like the massive stores we have available now days that we could do at least as well.

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Yahoo reporting "No MX or A Records" and bouncing emails
by Jonathan Rogers 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Greetings Programs, Yahoo is bouncing email that is being sent to a customer of mine with the error that no MX or A records were found for the domain. There is nothing wrong with the domain at all, which I have verified from multiple sources. Does anyone have any suggestions about who I can reach out to at Yahoo to get this matter resolved? Many Thanks, Jonathan Rogers PCM, Inc

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looking for Verizon Biz (UUNET) DNS contact
by Jason Sherron 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Would you mind contacting me off-list, please? I would like to ask a couple questions on the behaviors of the DNS resolvers present in DigWebInterface: 195.129.12.122 (UUNET (CH)): 192.76.144.66 (UUNET (DE)): 158.43.240.3 (UUNET (UK)): 198.6.100.25 (UUNET (US)):

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To CCIEs and JNCIEs
by ku po 13 Oct '13

13 Oct '13

Hi, Please relay to your CCIE/JNCIE friends, I am giving out name(a)theccie.comand name(a)jncie.com email accounts, anyone interested can contact me.

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Trend Micro Contact
by Jacques Marneweck 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

Hi Guys, I am looking for a contact at Trend Micro -- the email address they which they send notifications from appears to go to /dev/null as well as their web form appears to also go to /dev/null. If you can contact me off list it would be great. Regards --jm

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