On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> > > > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Perry Lorier" <iso...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > On 5/1/13 12:38 PM, Blair Trosper wrote: > > > > > > > > > That's all well and good, but I certainly wouldn't expect "nslookup > > > > > gmail.com <http://gmail.com>" or for "nslookup google.com" to > > > > > return SERVFAIL > > > > > > > Do you have traceroutes to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4? > > > > > > Is that actually pertinent? > > > > > > 8.8 and 8.4 aren't *public zone servers* for Google's commercial > domains, > > > are they? I have been assuming they were only open recursive resolver > > > nameservers... > > > I think perry's question is: "Can you show me which networks you > traversed > > and which instance of the service you were talking to at the time of > > the problem?" (or 'now' if the problem is persisting) > > Sure, Chris. > > But since Perry's problem is *inability to resolve names in google's > s/perry/blair/ > public zones*, the *path to the ZONE servers* is the thing diagnostics > would require a trace to, no? > I think, from some troubleshooting with blair yesterday he was having some odd problems with queries to google-public-dns (gdns), where everything he asked came up servfail. I wasn't able to repro this, which was annoying ;( We (perry/others) were interested in verifying that something odd wasn't happening between blair and the server answering his question(s)... > > If 8.8.8.8 doesn't *answer* for "google.com" (and no one's told me it > has), then how you get there is irrelevant. > > 8.8.8.8 is just an open resolver... oh, jabley replied as well (alway a cogent reply from him) > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC > 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land > Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 > 1274 > >
