DNS .US outage

Thu Jul 7 06:59:35 UTC 2005

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Rodney Joffe wrote:

> On 7/6/05 10:00 PM, "Church, Chuck" <cchurch at netcogov.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Thanks.  Didn't have any *NIX boxes laying around to 'dig' any deeper.
> > When I checked networksolutions' whois for neosystems.us and state.ny.us
> > , both returned:
> > " We are unable to process your request at this time. Please try again
> > later."
> >
> > Figured something was up.
>
> You meant this in passing only, right? You clearly did not intend to
> correlate an issue with .us DNS with whois data for .us, right?

also, with the helping-out of PCH and neustar I believe these TLD boxen
are actually anycast around quite some bit... though I could be mistaken
about that since the hotel in boston  (ATT) sees the same path as the
office in ashburn (UUNET) ...