Expect some major customer complaints about this one: www.etrade.com has no A record, and all other addresses are redirected to that very name. I just sent this to Etrade:

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:09:56 -0500 To: mstallcop@ETRADE.COM, postmaster@etrade.com, sales@etrade.com, info@etrade.com, noc@etrade.com Subject: www.etrade.com has no DNS A record !

I am seeing customer complaints this morning that they can't reach Etrade. Check: your ns1 and ns2 nameservers DO NOT have an address record (A) for www.etrade.com !!!!!!!!

Given that www.e-trade.com redirects to www.etrade.com, everyone is caught in this trap !

Your secondaries at barrnet.net and psi.net are still holding up:

jupiter:~# dig @ns1.etrade.com www.etrade.com a

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> @ns1.etrade.com www.etrade.com a ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags: qr rd; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 2, Addit: 2 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; www.etrade.com, type = A, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: www.etrade.com. 14000 NS gsched2.etrade.com. www.etrade.com. 14000 NS gsched1.etrade.com.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: gsched2.etrade.com. 14000 A 198.93.32.18 gsched1.etrade.com. 14000 A 198.93.33.18

;; Total query time: 87 msec ;; FROM: jupiter.speedus.net to SERVER: ns1.etrade.com 198.93.33.11 ;; WHEN: Tue Jan 25 11:03:26 2000 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 32 rcvd: 118

jupiter:~# dig @ns2.etrade.com www.etrade.com a

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> @ns2.etrade.com www.etrade.com a ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags: qr rd; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 2, Addit: 2 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; www.etrade.com, type = A, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: www.etrade.com. 14000 NS gsched2.etrade.com. www.etrade.com. 14000 NS gsched1.etrade.com.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: gsched2.etrade.com. 14000 A 198.93.32.18 gsched1.etrade.com. 14000 A 198.93.33.18

;; Total query time: 85 msec ;; FROM: jupiter.speedus.net to SERVER: ns2.etrade.com 198.93.32.11 ;; WHEN: Tue Jan 25 11:03:30 2000 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 32 rcvd: 118

jupiter:~# dig @ns2.psi.net www.etrade.com a

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> @ns2.psi.net www.etrade.com a ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags: qr rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 2, Addit: 2 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; www.etrade.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWERS: www.etrade.com. 3 A 167.216.172.33

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: www.etrade.com. 14000 NS gsched2.etrade.com. www.etrade.com. 14000 NS gsched1.etrade.com.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS: gsched2.etrade.com. 14000 A 198.93.32.18 gsched1.etrade.com. 14000 A 198.93.33.18

;; Total query time: 84 msec ;; FROM: jupiter.speedus.net to SERVER: ns2.psi.net 38.8.50.2 ;; WHEN: Tue Jan 25 11:03:35 2000 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 32 rcvd: 134

jupiter:~# dig @ns1.barrnet.net www.etrade.com a

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> @ns1.barrnet.net www.etrade.com a ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 0, Addit: 0 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; www.etrade.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWERS: www.etrade.com. 15 A 167.216.172.33

;; Total query time: 3051 msec ;; FROM: jupiter.speedus.net to SERVER: ns1.barrnet.net 131.119.245.5 ;; WHEN: Tue Jan 25 11:03:43 2000 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 32 rcvd: 48