I've heard rumour that the problem is not limited to NS59 and NS60 at WORLDNIC.com, and that use of the the truncate bit is involved in some cases, forcing queries to use TCP.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Root DNS Servers 2 From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> Date: Fri, April 22, 2005 8:55 am To: nanog@merit.edu Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>

On Apr 22, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

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The problem appears to be with

ipc.com nameserver = NS60.WORLDNIC.com. ipc.com nameserver = NS59.WORLDNIC.com.

Anyone know what's happening?

note, I'm not a dns admin nor a network engineer, BUT these aren't root servers... Perhaps your host(s) are being filtered at worldnic.com's host level while your provider's server(s) are not?

I have been told by a Network Solutions hosting customer that the NSI name servers are down. This is (obviously) affecting their mail & web.

Since WORLDNIC.com is NSI, this would make sense.

But yeah, this ain't nuttin' to do wit da r00t servers.

-- TTFN, patrick