All of .mil tld is down

Tue May 20 04:14:16 UTC 2014

OpenDNS still has A records for nipr.mil authoritative nameservers.

% dig -t ns nipr.mil @resolver1.opendns.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.3-P2 <<>> -t ns nipr.mil @resolver1.opendns.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 37645
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nipr.mil.                      IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
nipr.mil.               20126   IN      NS      EUR2.nipr.mil.
nipr.mil.               20126   IN      NS      EUR1.nipr.mil.
nipr.mil.               20126   IN      NS      PAC2.nipr.mil.
nipr.mil.               20126   IN      NS      CON1.nipr.mil.
nipr.mil.               20126   IN      NS      PAC1.nipr.mil.
nipr.mil.               20126   IN      NS      CON2.nipr.mil.

;; Query time: 58 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Tue May 20 04:09:11 UTC 2014
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 151

% dig eur2.nipr.mil @resolver1.opendns.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.3-P2 <<>> eur2.nipr.mil @resolver1.opendns.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 44901
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;eur2.nipr.mil.                 IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
eur2.nipr.mil.          20103   IN      A       199.252.143.234

;; Query time: 56 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.222.222#53(208.67.222.222)
;; WHEN: Tue May 20 04:09:34 UTC 2014
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 58

On 20 May 2014 03:01, Tony Wicks <tony at wicks.co.nz> wrote:
All those Domain servers seem to be in the one /16 and my traces show them
all taking the same network path... Well that is pretty poor planning...

 http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/mil.html

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of jamie rishaw
Sent: Tuesday, 20 May 2014 2:40 p.m.
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Subject: All of .mil tld is down

At time of post..
.mil. is down.
Apparently an Anonymous "Operation Payback".

.mil nameservers are unresponsive.