Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:49:18 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Can anyone reach aljazeera.net or english.aljazeera.net from outside > of US? Or any nameservers for it? > > I'm trying to determine if this is a US only issue, <ahem>.
$ whois aljazeera.net|head -25 Whois Server Version 1.3 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net for detailed information. Domain Name: ALJAZEERA.NET Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com Name Server: ALJNS1SA.NAV-LINK.NET Name Server: ALJNS1HB.DATAPIPE.COM Status: ACTIVE Updated Date: 09-mar-2003 Creation Date: 30-aug-1996 Expiration Date: 29-aug-2010 >>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 05:57:21 EST <<< $ host ALJNS1HB.DATAPIPE.COM ALJNS1HB.DATAPIPE.COM A 64.106.198.4 $ host ALJNS1SA.NAV-LINK.NET ALJNS1SA.NAV-LINK.NET A 217.26.193.15 Both nameservers do not ping nor do they respond to nslookups. But the following two nameservers seem to work: $host aljazeera.net ns1.datapipe.net aljazeera.net A 217.26.193.10 aljazeera.net A 64.106.198.10 $ host aljazeera.net ns2sa.NAV-LINK.NET aljazeera.net A 217.26.193.10 aljazeera.net A 64.106.198.10 This last ns is configured quite talkative: $ host -l aljazeera.net ns2sa.NAV-LINK.NET aljazeera.net. NS aljns1sa.nav-link.net. aljazeera.net. NS aljns1hb.datapipe.com. aljazeera.net. A 217.26.193.10 aljazeera.net. A 64.106.198.10 www1.aljazeera.net. A 64.106.198.10 www2.aljazeera.net. A 217.26.193.10 syndication.aljazeera.net. A 217.26.193.12 jazad01.aljazeera.net. A 217.26.193.6 jazad02.aljazeera.net. A 217.26.193.7 jazad11.aljazeera.net. A 63.175.196.230 jazad12.aljazeera.net. A 63.175.196.236 synadmin.aljazeera.net. A 217.26.193.13 mail.aljazeera.net. A 64.110.61.12 stats.aljazeera.net. A 217.26.193.29 admin.aljazeera.net. A 217.26.193.14 users.aljazeera.net. A 217.26.193.10 old02.aljazeera.net. A 63.99.208.77 !!! old02.aljazeera.net A record has zero ttl us.aljazeera.net. NS jazdc11.us.aljazeera.net. jazdc11.us.aljazeera.net. A 63.175.196.228 us.aljazeera.net. NS jazdc12.us.aljazeera.net. jazdc12.us.aljazeera.net. A 63.175.196.229 english.aljazeera.net. A 64.106.198.16 ftp1.aljazeera.net. A 64.110.61.13 ftp2.aljazeera.net. A 62.3.4.8 jazad.aljazeera.net. A 64.106.198.11 jazad.aljazeera.net. A 217.26.193.12 jazproxy01.aljazeera.net. A 63.99.208.80 !!! jazproxy01.aljazeera.net A record has zero ttl 2001.aljazeera.net. A 63.175.196.237 2002.aljazeera.net. A 63.175.196.237 jazproxy11.aljazeera.net. A 192.168.81.80 jazproxy12.aljazeera.net. 9 so-0-0-0.cr2.lhr3.uk.mfnx.net (208.184.231.146) 29.951 ms 29.682 ms 29.917 ms According to this, english.aljazeera.net should be at 64.106.198.16, an IP owned by Horizons Media and Information Services, but a traceroute gets stuck some hops after the last Sprint-owned IPs. [...] 10 so-7-0-0.cr2.lga1.us.mfnx.net (64.125.31.182) 101.167 ms 102.117 ms 102.428 ms 11 pos1-0.pr1.lga1.us.mfnx.net (208.184.233.218) 102.150 ms 102.238 ms 102.237 ms 12 sl-gw39-nyc-10-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.171.33) 102.457 ms 101.201 ms 101.167 ms 13 sl-bb20-nyc-10-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.13.63) 99.992 ms 99.762 ms 100.081 ms 14 sl-bb20-atl-11-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.90) 215.028 ms 238.069 ms 224.584 ms 15 sl-bb22-fw-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.21) 149.301 ms 148.434 ms 148.216 ms 16 sl-dr21-dal-15-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.19.118) 149.382 ms 149.707 ms 149.170 ms 17 65.163.246.14 (65.163.246.14) 149.245 ms 149.246 ms 149.049 ms 18 63.168.12.164 (63.168.12.164) 150.208 ms 149.479 ms 150.531 ms 19 * * * 20 * * * 21 * * * 22 * * * 23 * * * 24 * * * 25 * * * 26 * * * 27 * * * 28 * * * But that's all a coincidence and due to the heavy load on their servers, isn't it? Cheers, Marcel
