I talked to Yahoo! NOC a little while ago and they are working on the issue - definitely DNS related and appears to possibly be east coast only.... details are vague but they are aware of it and no ETA yet...
Paul -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:41 PM To: nanog list Subject: Re: Yahoo DNS broken? There is no A records, correct. There is a CNAME though: www.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 45 IN CNAME www- real.wa1.b.yahoo.com. www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 45 IN A 209.131.36.158 On 4/12/2008, at 9:36 AM, Larry Daberko wrote: > I am unable to resolve www.yahoo.com. Tracing DNS back from the root > servers shows that www.yahoo.com is a CNAME to www.wa1.b.yahoo.com and > there are no A records for that hostname. > > Anyone have more details or a Yahoo contact? I'm unable to get to > their > webpage as it is :-) > > -Larry Daberko > iServe Technologies > > > > > $ dig @ns1.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com > > ; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @ns1.yahoo.com www.yahoo.com > ; (1 server found) > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 56431 > ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 > ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;www.yahoo.com. IN A > > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > www.yahoo.com. 300 IN CNAME www.wa1.b.yahoo.com. > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > wa1.b.yahoo.com. 300 IN NS yf1.yahoo.com. > wa1.b.yahoo.com. 300 IN NS yf2.yahoo.com. > > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: > yf1.yahoo.com. 1800 IN A 68.142.254.15 > yf2.yahoo.com. 1800 IN A 68.180.130.15 > > ;; Query time: 15 msec > ;; SERVER: 68.180.131.16#53(68.180.131.16) > ;; WHEN: Wed Dec 3 15:34:09 2008 > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 123 > > > but looking up the host itself gives no answer > > > $ dig @ns1.yahoo.com www.wa1.b.yahoo.com > > ; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @ns1.yahoo.com www.wa1.b.yahoo.com > ; (1 server found) > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34875 > ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 > ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;www.wa1.b.yahoo.com. IN A > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > wa1.b.yahoo.com. 300 IN NS yf1.yahoo.com. > wa1.b.yahoo.com. 300 IN NS yf2.yahoo.com. > > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: > yf1.yahoo.com. 1800 IN A 68.142.254.15 > yf2.yahoo.com. 1800 IN A 68.180.130.15 > > ;; Query time: 15 msec > ;; SERVER: 68.180.131.16#53(68.180.131.16) > ;; WHEN: Wed Dec 3 15:35:07 2008 > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 105 > > > > !DSPAM:22,4936edf127844578318734! > > -- Nathan Ward ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and contains confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender immediately and then destroy this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, distributing or disclosing same. Thank you."
