[dns-operations] Looks like .us has a FAIL

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:28:32AM -0700,
 Fred Morris <m3047 at m3047.net> wrote 
 a message of 37 lines which said:
 
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Works for me, from several places:

% check-soa  us
c.cctld.us. : 156.154.127.70 (2008314055) 
k.cctld.us. : 156.154.128.70 (2008314055) 2001:503:e239::3:1 (2008314055) 
a.cctld.us. : 156.154.124.70 (2008314055) 
f.cctld.us. : 209.173.58.70 (2008314055) 2001:500:3682::11 (2008314055) 
b.cctld.us. : 156.154.125.70 (2008314055) 2001:503:d1ae:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ff7e (2008314056) 
e.cctld.us. : 156.154.126.70 (2008314055) 

% dig +nodnssec +nssearch us
SOA a.cctld.us. hostmaster.neustar.biz. 2008314059 900 900 604800 86400 from server 2001:500:3682::11 in 35 ms.
SOA a.cctld.us. hostmaster.neustar.biz. 2008314059 900 900 604800 86400 from server 209.173.58.70 in 37 ms.
SOA a.cctld.us. hostmaster.neustar.biz. 2008314059 900 900 604800 86400 from server 156.154.124.70 in 40 ms.
SOA a.cctld.us. hostmaster.neustar.biz. 2008314059 900 900 604800 86400 from server 156.154.127.70 in 41 ms.
SOA a.cctld.us. hostmaster.neustar.biz. 2008314059 900 900 604800 86400 from server 156.154.125.70 in 47 ms.
SOA a.cctld.us. hostmaster.neustar.biz. 2008314059 900 900 604800 86400 from server 2001:503:d1ae:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ff7e in 50 ms.
SOA a.cctld.us. hostmaster.neustar.biz. 2008314059 900 900 604800 86400 from server 156.154.126.70 in 49 ms.
SOA a.cctld.us. hostmaster.neustar.biz. 2008314059 900 900 604800 86400 from server 156.154.128.70 in 51 ms.
SOA a.cctld.us. hostmaster.neustar.biz. 2008314059 900 900 604800 86400 from server 2001:503:e239::3:1 in 52 ms.

And stealing threads is very bad 
<http://wiki.exim.org/MailingListEtiquette#Thread_Stealing>