I talked to Yahoo! NOC a little while ago and they are working on the issue - definitely DNS related and appears to possibly be east coast only.... details are vague but they are aware of it and no ETA yet... Paul -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Ward [mailto:nanog@daork.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:41 PM To: nanog list Subject: Re: Yahoo DNS broken? There is no A records, correct. There is a CNAME though: www.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 45 IN CNAME www- real.wa1.b.yahoo.com. www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 45 IN A 209.131.36.158 On 4/12/2008, at 9:36 AM, Larry Daberko wrote:
I am unable to resolve www.yahoo.com. Tracing DNS back from the root servers shows that www.yahoo.com is a CNAME to www.wa1.b.yahoo.com and there are no A records for that hostname.
Anyone have more details or a Yahoo contact? I'm unable to get to their webpage as it is :-)
-Larry Daberko iServe Technologies
$ dig @ns1.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @ns1.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56431 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.yahoo.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION: www.yahoo.com. 300 IN CNAME www.wa1.b.yahoo.com.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION: wa1.b.yahoo.com. 300 IN NS yf1.yahoo.com. wa1.b.yahoo.com. 300 IN NS yf2.yahoo.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: yf1.yahoo.com. 1800 IN A 68.142.254.15 yf2.yahoo.com. 1800 IN A 68.180.130.15
;; Query time: 15 msec ;; SERVER: 68.180.131.16#53(68.180.131.16) ;; WHEN: Wed Dec 3 15:34:09 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 123
but looking up the host itself gives no answer
$ dig @ns1.yahoo.com www.wa1.b.yahoo.com
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @ns1.yahoo.com www.wa1.b.yahoo.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34875 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.wa1.b.yahoo.com. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION: wa1.b.yahoo.com. 300 IN NS yf1.yahoo.com. wa1.b.yahoo.com. 300 IN NS yf2.yahoo.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: yf1.yahoo.com. 1800 IN A 68.142.254.15 yf2.yahoo.com. 1800 IN A 68.180.130.15
;; Query time: 15 msec ;; SERVER: 68.180.131.16#53(68.180.131.16) ;; WHEN: Wed Dec 3 15:35:07 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 105
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