On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
Yep... a number of domains hosted on those two boxes are offline for me too. Was just about to join their hold queue...
Don't you mean the Telecom Merry-go-round.....
Funny you should mention that... I'm now seeing some zones getting redirected from alien/terminator back to the root, creating a dns lookup loop that ends with SERVFAIL... To use an example cited earlier: ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1.1 <<>> www.lifepharmacy.co.nz A +trace ;; global options: printcmd . 409449 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 409449 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 409449 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 409449 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 409449 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 409449 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 409449 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 409449 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 409449 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 409449 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 409449 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 409449 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 409449 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;; Received 440 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) in 2 ms nz. 172800 IN NS NS3.DNS.NET.nz. nz. 172800 IN NS NS2.DNS.NET.nz. nz. 172800 IN NS NS5.DNS.NET.nz. nz. 172800 IN NS NS6.DNS.NET.nz. nz. 172800 IN NS NS4.DNS.NET.nz. nz. 172800 IN NS NS7.DNS.NET.nz. nz. 172800 IN NS NS1.DNS.NET.nz. ;; Received 370 bytes from 192.203.230.10#53(E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 164 ms lifepharmacy.co.nz. 86400 IN NS terminator.xtra.co.nz. lifepharmacy.co.nz. 86400 IN NS alien.xtra.co.nz. ;; Received 122 bytes from 203.97.8.250#53(NS3.DNS.NET.nz) in 27 ms co.nz. 75347 IN NS ns4.dns.net.nz. co.nz. 75347 IN NS ns5.dns.net.nz. co.nz. 75347 IN NS ns6.dns.net.nz. co.nz. 75347 IN NS ns7.dns.net.nz. co.nz. 75347 IN NS ns1.dns.net.nz. co.nz. 75347 IN NS ns2.dns.net.nz. co.nz. 75347 IN NS ns3.dns.net.nz. ;; Received 370 bytes from 202.27.184.5#53(terminator.xtra.co.nz) in 36 ms lifepharmacy.co.nz. 86400 IN NS terminator.xtra.co.nz. lifepharmacy.co.nz. 86400 IN NS alien.xtra.co.nz. ;; Received 122 bytes from 202.46.189.130#53(ns4.dns.net.nz) in 11 ms co.nz. 44437 IN NS ns7.dns.net.nz. co.nz. 44437 IN NS ns1.dns.net.nz. co.nz. 44437 IN NS ns2.dns.net.nz. co.nz. 44437 IN NS ns3.dns.net.nz. co.nz. 44437 IN NS ns4.dns.net.nz. co.nz. 44437 IN NS ns5.dns.net.nz. co.nz. 44437 IN NS ns6.dns.net.nz. ;; Received 370 bytes from 202.27.184.5#53(terminator.xtra.co.nz) in 38 ms :dig: too many lookups Interestingly www.xtra.co.nz resolves OK now. Xtra/Telecom's website lists the following: Broadband * Issue: * Date: * Internet Issue * 24 January 2009 Telecom is aware of some issues affecting some of our online services including browsing certain websites and email access for some customers. Customers having email problems should try to access their emails by using Webmail, available at mail.yahoo.co.nz Technicians are working to resolve this as quickly as possible. Mark.