[dns-operations] Happy birthday .ASIA

[Peter Dambier]

Rodney Joffe wrote:
> On May 3, 2007, at 11:53 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> 
>>the EU slippery slope continues.  when can i get BIGISLAND?
> 
> 
> Indeed, and sorry to travel into relevant subject matter for this  
> list, related to Randy's comment...
> 
> Check your recursive caches for queries in the .asia tld. This looks  
> like being another RFC1918 type of issue in the name space. Its  
> amazing how many people use internal namespace that is geographic.  
> And unlike .eu  (thank goodness it wasn't .europe) .asia seems to  
> have been used by some large organizations to describe things like
> 
> foo.intranet.asia
> foo.vpn.asia
> 
> that are now turning into queries
> 
> :-/
> 

Looking for .ASIA in the world-wide-DNS gets me

FCFSroot/domains:ASIA.		A.TLD-SERVERS.NET		B.TLD-SERVERS.NET		NS.AUTONO.NET			NS10.NAME-SPACE.NET		NS10.ROOT-ZONE.NET
NameSpace/domains:ASIA.         A.TLD-SERVERS.NET		B.TLD-SERVERS.NET		NS.AUTONO.NET			NS10.NAME-SPACE.NET		NS10.ROOT-ZONE.NET
PublicRoot/domains:ASIA.        NS1.GLOBECOMM.NET		NS2.GLOBECOMM.NET
RootServers/domains:ASIA.       A9.ASIA.AFILIAS-NST.ASIA	B9.ASIA.AFILIAS-NST.INFO	C9.ASIA.AFILIAS-NST.ASIA	D9.ASIA.AFILIAS-NST.INFO	E9.ASIA.AFILIAS-NST.ASIA	F9.ASIA.AFILIAS-NST.INFO
Ucann2/domains:ASIA.    	A.TLD-SERVERS.NET		B.TLD-SERVERS.NET										NS10.ROOT-ZONE.NET

; <<>> DiG 9.4.0b4 <<>> -t any asia @A.TLD-SERVERS.NET
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15530
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 7

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;asia.                          IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
asia.                   86400   IN      NS      NS10.AUTONO.NET.
asia.                   86400   IN      NS      ROOT3.AUTONO.NET.
asia.                   86400   IN      NS      NS10.ROOT-ZONE.NET.
asia.                   86400   IN      NS      A.TLD-SERVERS.NET.
asia.                   86400   IN      NS      B.TLD-SERVERS.NET.
asia.                   86400   IN      TXT     "$whois=SWHOIS.NET"
asia.                   86400   IN      NS      NS.AUTONO.NET.
asia.                   86400   IN      SOA     NS.AUTONO.NET. hostmaster.name-space.NET. 1996080154 7200 3600 604800 86400

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
asia.                   86400   IN      NS      NS10.AUTONO.NET.
asia.                   86400   IN      NS      ROOT3.AUTONO.NET.
asia.                   86400   IN      NS      NS10.ROOT-ZONE.NET.
asia.                   86400   IN      NS      A.TLD-SERVERS.NET.
asia.                   86400   IN      NS      B.TLD-SERVERS.NET.
asia.                   86400   IN      NS      NS.AUTONO.NET.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS10.AUTONO.NET.        86400   IN      A       209.48.2.189
NS10.AUTONO.NET.        86400   IN      A       209.61.144.192
ROOT3.AUTONO.NET.       86400   IN      A       195.11.229.188
NS10.ROOT-ZONE.NET.     518400  IN      A       209.61.144.193
A.TLD-SERVERS.NET.      86400   IN      A       209.48.2.15
B.TLD-SERVERS.NET.      86400   IN      A       209.48.2.28
NS.AUTONO.NET.          86400   IN      A       209.48.2.11

;; Query time: 165 msec
;; SERVER: 209.48.2.15#53(209.48.2.15)
;; WHEN: Fri May  4 19:52:34 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 445



I am shure there are other Liberated Roots especially in Asia that do know the
ASIA TLD for a decade at least.


Cheers
Peter and Karin

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