[dns-operations] samsung.com ns oddities

[Crist Clark]

.ic does not exist. You’re right.

But looking at samsung.com’s history at DNSviz, this isn’t new for them
either.

On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM Chad Dailey <whammyster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe it's some FNG stuff... but we're having some issues resolving
> samsung.com records, the .ic zones look like they don't belong:
>
> Anybody from Samsung around?
>
> $ dig ns samsung.com
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.11.5-P4-5.1+deb10u11-Debian <<>> ns samsung.com
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35016
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 15, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 7
>
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
> ; COOKIE: b3862a604c7b54fc1afd0c0068a776cc51482c0c8f4c9d17 (good)
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;samsung.com.                   IN      NS
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS auth04.sam.ic.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS auth02.sam.ic.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS auth04.nhn.ic.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS auth01.nhn.ic.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS dns-gi1.samsung.com.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS auth02.nhn.ic.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS dnsst.samsung.com.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS dnsst2.samsung.com.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS dnssm.samsung.com.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS dns-awskr1.samsung.com.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS dns-gi2.samsung.com.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS auth03.nhn.ic.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS auth01.sam.ic.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS auth03.sam.ic.
> samsung.com.            300     IN      NS dnssm2.samsung.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> dnssm.samsung.com.      146664  IN      A  203.241.132.51
> dnsst.samsung.com.      146664  IN      A  203.241.135.51
> dnssm2.samsung.com.     146664  IN      A  112.107.53.58
> dnsst2.samsung.com.     146664  IN      A  112.106.53.58
> dns-gi1.samsung.com.    146664  IN      A  203.241.132.185
> dns-awskr1.samsung.com. 172800  IN      A  52.79.211.80
>
> ;; Query time: 433 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Aug 21 14:43:08 CDT 2025
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 493
>
>
> Feel free to apply cluebat if I'm missing something.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Chad D
>
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