[dns-operations] Weird problem with domain after being suspended for failed renewal

[Brielle]

On 10/4/2020 2:08 PM, Doug McIntyre wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 01:44:57PM -0600, Brielle wrote:
>> I got it paid, domain registration restored.  During suspension, they
>> set the domains to their own name servers, so it fouled up DNS
>> resolution for an hour or two after fixed.
> 
> Typically, I see expired domains set to their own nameservers with a
> 2d TTL, so the half-life of a cached entry is going to be 24h, not just
> a few hours..
> 


Yeah, I was just thinking back to a situation I was dealing with a few 
weeks ago and remembered it can take up to 24 hours usually to undo that 
kind of mess.

Sigh.


> 
> I'm guessing that you used them at one point in the past, and during
> the deactivation/reactivation process of your registrar, that they let
> some authoritative entries out to be cached that claim authoritative
> for your domain is still ns[123].dnsowl.com.


And this is why I came to you guys.  I didn't even consider that they 
would still be handing out auth data from that long ago.  I had to use 
them like 5-6 years ago iirc when I was moving stuff out of the data 
center back to Boise.

*grumbles*

If you are ever in my area, hit me up, I owe you a drink of your choice.



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Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
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