[dns-operations] l is broken

[Joe Abley]

Hi all,

We are aware, and are investigating. Thanks for the report.

The node in question was taken off-line a short while ago, and Australian clients ought to find they are now finding a different node. 


Joe

Sent from my Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7

On 2012-02-09, at 7:05, "Wolfgang Nagele" <wolfgang.nagele at ausregistry.com.au> wrote:

> 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>