[governance] The DNS root went down...

[Peter Dambier]

I dont know what happened to them

Status ORSN SOA

error(".","a.orsn-servers.net","217.146.128.77","no response").
error(".","b.orsn-servers.net","62.116.33.87","no response").
error(".","c.orsn-servers.net","212.7.160.13","no response").
soa(".","2007013100","d.orsn-servers.net","195.226.7.66").
error(".","e.orsn-servers.net","213.161.0.90","no response").
error(".","f.orsn-servers.net","193.138.173.218","no response").
error(".","g.orsn-servers.net","82.102.0.9","no response").
soa(".","2007013100","h.orsn-servers.net","213.144.148.130").
error(".","j.orsn-servers.net","193.93.167.222","no response").
soa(".","2007013100","k.orsn-servers.net","217.173.157.225").
soa(".","2007013100","l.orsn-servers.net","192.83.249.100").
soa(".","2007013100","m.orsn-servers.net","213.145.82.34").


but they seem to come back.

Thank you for telling them.

Kind regards
Peter and Karin


Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 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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