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