* From: Sean Donelan * Date: Wed Aug 30 20:02:13 2006

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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Gunther Stammwitz wrote:

Spain (at least the .es-part) was offline nobody reported it...? What's going on? In the past you were faster...

DNS operational problems were briefly discussed on the DNS operations mailing list earlier.

hannigan@ghostbusters> host ns1.nic.es ns1.nic.es has address 194.69.254.1 hannigan@ghostbusters> host ns2.nic.es ns2.nic.es has address 194.69.254.38 hannigan@ghostbusters> host www.nic.es www.nic.es has address 194.69.254.54 hannigan@ghostbusters> host www.red.es www.red.es is an alias for web.red.es. web.red.es has address 194.69.254.50 No idea what happened, and I don't read spanish, but the network configuration infers the registry(auth) and the registrar(nic) are one in the same. No surprise in the ccTLD. They are responsible for the uptime. There is a comment period taking place related to the ICANN IANA root zone checks. This made me think of it. http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-18aug06.htm -M< [ ObOffTopic: Maybe Paris Hilton can teach then about "separation"?] -- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574 Member of Technical Staff Network Operations hannigan@renesys.com