On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 06:17:24PM -0500, David Dagon <da...@sudo.sh> wrote a message of 31 lines which said:
> Trying from various locations, I can't seem to reach these > authorities: By the way, this is not the full list. The real one is larger (returned here by f.gtld-servers.net): ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns3.msft.net. 172800 IN A 213.199.180.53 ns3.msft.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2a01:111:2020::1:1 ns1.msft.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2a01:111:2005::1:1 ns1.msft.net. 172800 IN A 65.55.37.62 ns5.msft.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2a01:111:200f:1::1:1 ns5.msft.net. 172800 IN A 65.55.226.140 ns2.msft.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2a01:111:2006:6::1:1 ns2.msft.net. 172800 IN A 64.4.59.173 ns4.msft.net. 172800 IN A 207.46.75.254 ns4.msft.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2404:f800:2003::1:1 And the difference is important because, during the outage, the IPv6 servers responded fine: % check-soa -i microsoft.com ns1.msft.net. 2a01:111:2005::1:1: OK: 2013112102 (146 ms) 65.55.37.62: ERROR: Timeout ns2.msft.net. 2a01:111:2006:6::1:1: OK: 2013112102 (97 ms) 64.4.59.173: ERROR: Timeout ns3.msft.net. 2a01:111:2020::1:1: OK: 2013112102 (15 ms) 213.199.180.53: ERROR: Timeout ns4.msft.net. 2404:f800:2003::1:1: OK: 2013112102 (287 ms) 207.46.75.254: ERROR: Timeout ns5.msft.net. 2a01:111:200f:1::1:1: OK: 2013112102 (100 ms) 65.55.226.140: ERROR: Timeout (2300 UTC during the outage) So, people with a modern DNS resolver (one using IPv6 to talk to upstream) had no problems. Now, if someone from Microsoft can explain why IPv4 was down on all these sites and not IPv6, I'm all ears... _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs