Hi All! It seems that some of you were experiencing some problems with RADB yesterday. RADB was having brief mail problems which were resolved. If you continue to have difficulties, please let us know. This situation made me realize that it is not easy for the community to get a hold of someone to resolve these issues. So, in response to that, I would like to inform you all of the following points of contact. If you notice that RADB is not behaving properly, please send email to trouble@ra.net. If you believe that the trouble that you are experiencing is due to a mail problem with radb.ra.net, please send email to ra-help@merit.edu or rsng-help@merit.edu. Messages to these addresses will alert us to the problem and will also notify our NOC so that someone can be paged to handle the situation. Please only use these addresses when the database is not performing the way it is supposed to. Thanks! -abha ;) ps - let me know if there are any questions. __________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- abha ahuja ahuja@merit.edu Merit Network, Inc. 313.764.0294
It seems that some of you were experiencing some problems with RADB yesterday. RADB was having brief mail problems which were resolved. If you continue to have difficulties, please let us know. I don't believe that they are fixed yet. kuji> host -t ns ra.net ra.net NS NS.SESQUI.NET ra.net NS NS.ISI.EDU kuji> host -t mx radb.ra.net ns.isi.edu radb.ra.net MX record not found at ns.isi.edu, server failure kuji> host -t mx radb.ra.net ns.sesqui.net radb.ra.net MX record not found at ns.sesqui.net, server failure kuji> host -C ra.net ra.net NS NS.SESQUI.net zed.isi.edu bmanning.zed.isi.edu (1925628 10800 900 604800 129600) *** ra.net SOA record at NS.SESQUI.net is not authoritative ra.net has lame delegation to NS.SESQUI.net !!! ra.net SOA primary zed.isi.edu is not advertised via NS ra.net NS NS.ISI.EDU zed.isi.edu bmanning.zed.isi.edu (1925631 10800 900 604800 129600) *** ra.net SOA record at NS.ISI.EDU is not authoritative ra.net has lame delegation to NS.ISI.EDU !!! NS.ISI.EDU and NS.SESQUI.net have different serial for ra.net Also we haven't received back ACKs from any of the messages we sent out before we started using a hard coded IP number in the mail address, ie "auto-dbm@[198.108.0.8]". Our problem with the RADB not returning at least one net tagged with our origin (203.22.196.0/24) as a result of a "\gAS2764" query is still unresolved. Mark. PS If you really thought this was fixed why didn't you contact us since we have an open TT with you about this very issue?
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Mark Prior wrote: Hi Mark! I fixed the mail problems with radb.ra.net. Auto-dbm is functioning correctly now. Unfortunately, the DNS problems are completely out of Merit's hands. DNS for radb.ra.net is run by Bill Manning at ISI. This is because the RA project is a joint venture between Merit and ISI. I have sent Bill Manning email regarding this matter. There is little I can do to fix it. If you have a suggestion to a work-around to this problem, I am very willing to implement it. Submissions that I have sent to radb.ra.net from various locations worked correctly for me. And the mail problem was fixed. As far as your particular route problem, I am still looking into it, which is why you weren't notified. You may want to try resubmitting your messages to radb.ra.net. I am sorry for any inconvenience that this may have caused you, but I am doing my best to resolve the problem as quickly as I can. Thank you for your patience. Please send me (and our NOC) email to ra-help@merit.edu if you have any further questions. I will keep you updated as to any progress with this matter. -abha ;)
I don't believe that they are fixed yet.
kuji> host -t ns ra.net ra.net NS NS.SESQUI.NET ra.net NS NS.ISI.EDU kuji> host -t mx radb.ra.net ns.isi.edu radb.ra.net MX record not found at ns.isi.edu, server failure kuji> host -t mx radb.ra.net ns.sesqui.net radb.ra.net MX record not found at ns.sesqui.net, server failure kuji> host -C ra.net ra.net NS NS.SESQUI.net zed.isi.edu bmanning.zed.isi.edu (1925628 10800 900 604800 129600) *** ra.net SOA record at NS.SESQUI.net is not authoritative ra.net has lame delegation to NS.SESQUI.net !!! ra.net SOA primary zed.isi.edu is not advertised via NS ra.net NS NS.ISI.EDU zed.isi.edu bmanning.zed.isi.edu (1925631 10800 900 604800 129600) *** ra.net SOA record at NS.ISI.EDU is not authoritative ra.net has lame delegation to NS.ISI.EDU !!! NS.ISI.EDU and NS.SESQUI.net have different serial for ra.net
Also we haven't received back ACKs from any of the messages we sent out before we started using a hard coded IP number in the mail address, ie "auto-dbm@[198.108.0.8]".
Our problem with the RADB not returning at least one net tagged with our origin (203.22.196.0/24) as a result of a "\gAS2764" query is still unresolved.
Mark.
PS If you really thought this was fixed why didn't you contact us since we have an open TT with you about this very issue?
__________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- abha ahuja ahuja@merit.edu Merit Network, Inc. 313.764.0294
I fixed the mail problems with radb.ra.net. Auto-dbm is functioning correctly now. Unfortunately, the DNS problems are completely out of Merit's hands. DNS for radb.ra.net is run by Bill Manning at ISI. This is because the RA project is a joint venture between Merit and ISI. I have sent Bill Manning email regarding this matter. There is little I can do to fix it. If you have a suggestion to a work-around to this problem, I am very willing to implement it. My workaround is to use the IP address in the mail messages I send to auto-dbm. This seems to avoid the problem, changes happen and I get acks back, so I suggest that this whole exercise is a DNS problem. I am very surprised that you don't run a secondary for the zone at Merit since you house the hardware providing the DB. As far as your particular route problem, I am still looking into it, which is why you weren't notified. You may want to try resubmitting your messages to radb.ra.net. I have sent in the additions that were important to me, I'm not so concerned about the withdrawals, using the method I mentioned above. I have also reconfigured our system to use that address until I know the DNS is fixed, which I guess won't be until after thanksgiving. I am sorry for any inconvenience that this may have caused you, but I am doing my best to resolve the problem as quickly as I can. Thanks. Mark.
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Abha Ahuja
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Mark Prior