Simon Lyall
ns1.dns.net.nz and ns2.dns.net.nz seem to be offline. I hope these arn't the primaries the others are syncing off. Everything else seems to be still online so I'm not sure why you are seeing the errors you are though.
TelstraClear has had some serious problems from about 9am this morning, which was affecting all of the Domainz network, 202.46.160.0/20, including ns1.dns.net.nz and ns2.dns.net.nz. The SRS primaries (primary1.dns.net.nz and primary2.dns.net.nz) and the SRS site itself appear to have been unaffected, as were the remaining name servers (ns3..ns7). The Domainz Wellington site (including ns2.dns.net.nz) was available to Wellington users (go WIX!), but wasn't reachable from the rest of the world. As we have two thirds of the NZ nameservers reachable, there shouldn't have been any loss of service nor significant performance degradation in the NZ DNS. The problems appear to been fixed now.
On a related note I see APNIC and the ISC are talking about mirroring The f.root-servers.net in APNIC area, anyone know if we might get one in NZ?
Unlikely. We don't generate enough traffic. Oceania as a whole accounts for a significant proportion of US West Coast root server traffic, and of that a pretty big proportion (more than 80%) comes from Australia. So the logical place to put it is somewhere in Aus. Even that will give a performance boost to root queries from within NZ, as the RTT to Aus (assuming half-decent trans-tasman routing) is less than a third of that to the US. (Damn, 'c' is a small number.) http://www.caida.org/outreach/presentations/dns0209/mgp00035.html -- don - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog