[dns-operations] l is broken

[Wolfgang Nagele]

Hi,

Seeing the same from a Telstra line in Melbourne.

$ mtr -n -c 1 -r -4 l.root-servers.net |tail -5
  7.|-- 203.50.11.74               0.0%     1   44.6  44.6  44.6  44.6   0.0
  8.|-- 203.50.11.71               0.0%     1   57.9  57.9  57.9  57.9   0.0
  9.|-- 203.50.50.33               0.0%     1   54.4  54.4  54.4  54.4   0.0
 10.|-- 139.130.0.174              0.0%     1   56.6  56.6  56.6  56.6   0.0
 11.|-- 199.7.83.42                0.0%     1   54.8  54.8  54.8  54.8   0.0


$ dig -4 @l.root-servers.net . soa

; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 <<>> -4 @l.root-servers.net . soa
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 36223
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.                              IN      SOA

;; Query time: 56 msec
;; SERVER: 199.7.83.42#53(199.7.83.42)
;; WHEN: Thu Feb  9 23:04:17 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 17

So this seems to be the instance of L-root in Brisbane.

Sent this to the ICANN folks running L-root via BCC so they can look into it.

Cheers,
Wolfgang

On Feb 9, 2012, at 22:38, Noel Butler wrote:

> The l.root-server  in Australia is currently U/S
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 11:48 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:43:42PM +1100,
>>  Mark Andrews <
>> marka at isc.org
>> > wrote 
>>  a message of 41 lines which said:
>> 
>> > % dig -4 soa . @l.root-servers.net
>> 
> 
> <signature.asc><ATT00001..c>