[dns-operations] Strange things at C root name server

[Michael Sinatra]

On 5/21/24 13:38, Elmar K. Bins wrote:
> Re Stéphane,
> 
> bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) wrote:
> 
>> First, c.root-servers.net lags behind. It is at serial 2024051801
>> while all other root name servers are at 2024052101.
> 
> the SOA part is discouraging, I'm sure their monitoring has picked that up, so
> for some reason they might be unable to act.
> 
> 
>> Second, c.root-servers.org (.org, the Web server) does not reply and
>> its IP address is allocated to Orange Ivory Coast (which started to
>> announce this prefix four days ago).
> 
> I can't find it allocated or assigned to Orange; I only see the /8 in
> ARIN's records. Where did you see the allocation?

Just a reminder to folks: If you're querying ARIN's whois directly, 
either via the BSD/MacOS 'whois -a' or 'whois -h whois.arin.net' CLI 
tool, or the linuxish tool, which allows for the latter command only, 
you're only going to see the allocation from ARIN and not the downstream 
rwhois server at Cogent, which shows their further delegations.  This is 
also true if you use ARIN's web (or presumably REST) interfaces.

Simply using 'whois 38.230.3.46' at the CLI of either the *BSD/MacOS 
tool or the tool generally available for Linuxes will traverse the full 
rwhois chain and show the reassignment to Orange Cote d'Ivoire.

Note that querying the IRR system also shows a route object with an 
origin AS of 29571.

michael