.mil dns problems?

Thu May 27 19:27:59 UTC 2010

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:16:35AM -1000,
 Antonio Querubin <tony at lava.net> wrote 
 a message of 10 lines which said:

> Anyone seeing trouble resolving some .mil hostnames consistently today?  

Yes, most DNS servers of .MIL are unresponsive:

% check_soa mil
There was no response from EUR2.NIPR.mil
CON2.NIPR.mil has serial number 2010052701
There was no response from PAC1.NIPR.mil
There was no response from PAC2.NIPR.mil
There was no response from CON1.NIPR.mil
There was no response from EUR1.NIPR.mil

% check_soa mil
There was no response from EUR1.NIPR.mil
There was no response from CON2.NIPR.mil
There was no response from CON1.NIPR.mil
There was no response from EUR2.NIPR.mil
There was no response from PAC2.NIPR.mil
There was no response from PAC1.NIPR.mil

DoS attack, may be?