[governance] The DNS root went down...

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

Not the ICANN one but ORSN is down since yesterday.

The nice thing about alternative roots is that you have more fun than
with the boring official root.

Zero name server replied. Now, there is only one:

% check_soa .
There was no response from F.ORSN-SERVERS.NET
There is no address for E.ORSN-SERVERS.NET
D.ORSN-SERVERS.NET has serial number 2007013100
There is no address for C.ORSN-SERVERS.NET
There is no address for B.ORSN-SERVERS.NET
There is no address for A.ORSN-SERVERS.NET
There is no address for M.ORSN-SERVERS.NET
There was no response from L.ORSN-SERVERS.NET
There is no address for K.ORSN-SERVERS.NET
There was no response from J.ORSN-SERVERS.NET
There was no response from H.ORSN-SERVERS.NET

A.ORSN-SERVERS.NET, the primary, replies with "Server failure":

% dig @A.ORSN-SERVERS.NET SOA .

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @A.ORSN-SERVERS.NET SOA .
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 1763
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.                              IN      SOA

;; Query time: 104 msec
;; SERVER: 2001:8d0:0:3::100#53(A.ORSN-SERVERS.NET)
;; WHEN: Sat Feb 10 10:44:06 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 17

Of course, I tried to mail the maintainers:

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<ops at orsn-servers.net>

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 5.0.0 MX list for orsn-servers.net. points back to gateway.hilcable.net
554 5.3.5 Local configuration error

The Web site boldly says that everything is OK.

Moral: managing a root is not so easy as it seems. Setting it up is
easy. Maintaining it in the long term is more work (and wakefulness).
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