misc/103814: cvsup11.freebsd.org dns issues

[Jan Gyselinck]

On 26 Oct 2006, Vivek Khera wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Juraj Lutter wrote:
> 
>>Vivek Khera wrote:
>>>I was successful at doing a cvsup on 19 October, but today, 26  
>>>October,
>>>it is coming back with SERVFAIL name lookup.
>>
>>ns1.downloadtech.com is causing the problem.
> 
> It seems deeper than that, though.
> 
> If you query one of the other authoritative DNS server you get the  
> CNAME for cvsup11:
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> cvsup11.freebsd.org.    3600    IN      CNAME   freebsd- 
> mirror0.research.uu.net.
> 
> and looking that up, you get no answer for the A record.  So if you  
> query any of the NS records for uu.net, you get referred to other NS  
> servers for research.uu.net, and no answer to the A record:
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> research.uu.net.        3600    IN      NS      beast.research.uu.net.
> research.uu.net.        3600    IN      NS      auth03.ns.uu.net.
> research.uu.net.        3600    IN      NS      auth50.ns.uu.net.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> beast.research.uu.net.  3600    IN      A       63.87.62.73
> 
> Querying the auth* hosts you get the same answer back; querying  
> beast.research.uu.net I get no response:
> 
> 
> % dig freebsd-mirror0.research.uu.net @beast.research.uu.net
> dig: couldn't get address for 'beast.research.uu.net': not found
> 
> and even:
> 
> 
> % dig freebsd-mirror0.research.uu.net @63.87.62.73
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2-P1 <<>> freebsd-mirror0.research.uu.net @63.87.62.73
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> 
> 
> so something is *really* wrong I think.  Normally these  
> research.uu.net servers are just 5ms from me and I believe they're in  
> the same data center.

Oh the joys of X mergers and Y rifs...  I have no idea why beast is
unreachable or who manages it these days, I've reconf'd the zone to 
run primary now, so it should reappear on auth03/auth50 in the next hour.

Regards


Jan

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