[dns-operations] failing .int zone transfers

[Joe Abley]

On 2011-03-07, at 05:18, Jim Reid wrote:

> On 7 Mar 2011, at 09:29, Jan Gyselinck wrote:
> 
>> Looking on the server at the logs.  Note that ICANN contacted us with
>> the correct transfer technique to use, and that solved the issue.
> 
> Care to explain why the wrong transfer technique was being used for a TLD?
> 
> Was there a procedural or communication problem we could all learn from?

There was a lack of documentation regarding which servers people were pulling zones from, and some configuration missing from our monitoring that caused our usual alarm bells not to ring when transfers stopped working. Both problems have now been fixed.


Joe