[dns-operations] What's the story on gmail.fr?

[Emmanuel Thierry]

Le 6 juil. 2014 à 17:10, Emmanuel Thierry <ml at sekil.fr> a écrit :

> 
> Le 6 juil. 2014 à 16:34, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> a écrit :
> 
>> On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 03:45:18PM +0200,
>> sthaug at nethelp.no <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote 
>> a message of 30 lines which said:
>> 
>>> But according to the name servers for .fr,
>>> 
>>> gmail.fr.               172800  IN      NS      dns1.emarkmonitor.com.
>>> gmail.fr.               172800  IN      NS      dns2.emarkmonitor.com.
>> 
>> gmail.fr had this set of name servers for a very long time (2010, you
>> can check in DNSDB if you're not sure).
>> 
>>> From my vantage point in Norway (AS 2116), I can't get any answer at
>>> all from dns{1,2}.emarkmonitor.com - thus gmail.fr is for all purposes
>>> nonexistent for our customers.
>> 
>> Same problem for me. No idea of the cause. But it is _not_ specific to
>> .fr or to Google. Same problem for all domains hosted at
>> dnsN.emarkmonitor.com, like amazon-blog.biz.
> 
> Contrarily to dnsN.emarkmonitor.com, nsN.markmonitor.com replies to queries.
> But the answer is still different from google servers :
> 
> % dig +short @ns1.google.com gmail.fr
> 173.194.66.17
> 173.194.66.18
> 173.194.66.83
> 173.194.66.19
> 
> % dig +short @ns1.markmonitor.com gmail.fr
> 72.14.253.83
> 64.233.161.83
> 64.233.171.83

By the way, as far as i know french people use gmail.com in place of gmail.fr. They won't even notice ! ;)

Best regards
Emmanuel Thierry