I know Bill was previously having some firewalling issues, possibly is again. I'd assume he'll respond to this email... On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:39:27PM -0600, Chris Parker typed:

Anyone know what's going on with ep.net? It's been unresolvable since at least yesterday.

PAIX, SIX and several other exchanges point to ep.net to register for an IP assignment at the exchange.

The two authoritive servers, flag.ep.net (198.32.4.13) dot.ep.net (198.32.2.10) are not working by my testing (from own network as well as looking glasses).

I cannot even reach flag, and dot doesn't know about ep.net.

$ dig @198.32.2.10 ep.net soa

; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> @198.32.2.10 ep.net soa ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 10 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; ep.net, type = SOA, class = IN

$ dig @198.32.4.13 ep.net soa

; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> @198.32.4.13 ep.net soa ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; res_send to server 198.32.4.13: Connection timed out

Any insight or answer on how to register for IPs at an exchange ( since the exchange operators are just as stumped ) would be greatly appreciated.

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... PAIX, SIX and several other exchanges point to ep.net to register for an IP assignment at the exchange. ...

Actually, and for the record, PAIX gets its IP address blocks from EP.Net but we don't use them for address allocations/registrations within those blocks. That's handled internally here. When EP.Net receives a request for a PAIX-handled block, they forward the request to us. -- Paul Vixie <vixie@eng.paix.net> President, PAIX.Net Inc. (NASD:MFNX)