root servers followup

Fri Feb 14 07:10:30 UTC 1997

On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Matthew Kaufman wrote:

Certain individual(s) on the iahc-discuss list have made statements that
they intend to attack the Internet root servers.  I have no idea if this
is the result of such an attack or not.  Just a FYI. 

> 
> This problem is definitely occuring on h.root-servers.net at the
> present time as documented below (similar to results that I see just
> arrived in my mailbox from <jh at yahoo.com>. However, an earlier log
> from our support department shows that d.root-servers.net and
> possibly e.root-servers.net were also having this problem within
> the past 60-90 minutes. (also see below)
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> @g.root-servers.net mail.scruznet.com
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10
> ;; flags: qr rd; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 2, Addit: 2
> ;; QUESTIONS:
> ;;      mail.scruznet.com, type = A, class = IN
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
> SCRUZNET.com.   172800  NS      NS.SCRUZ.NET.
> SCRUZNET.com.   172800  NS      NS2.SCRUZ.NET.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
> NS.SCRUZ.NET.   172800  A       165.227.1.1
> NS2.SCRUZ.NET.  172800  A       165.227.2.10
> 
> ;; Total query time: 433 msec
> ;; FROM: ns.scruz.net to SERVER: g.root-servers.net  192.112.36.4
> ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 13 18:19:47 1997
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 35  rcvd: 123
> 
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> @h.root-servers.net mail.scruznet.com
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 0
> ;; QUESTIONS:
> ;;      mail.scruznet.com, type = A, class = IN
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
> .       86400   SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET. (
>                     1997021100      ; serial
>                       10800   ; refresh (3 hours)
>                       900     ; retry (15 mins)
>                       604800  ; expire (7 days)
>                       86400 ) ; minimum (1 day)
> 
> ;; Total query time: 157 msec
> ;; FROM: ns.scruz.net to SERVER: h.root-servers.net  128.63.2.53
> ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 13 18:19:47 1997
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 35  rcvd: 108
> 
> --
> earlier (sorry, nslookup, not dig)
> --
> > server d.root-servers.net
> Default Server:  d.root-servers.net
> Served by:
> - rs0.internic.net
>         198.41.0.5
>         ROOT-SERVERS.net
> - ns.ripe.net
>         193.0.0.193
>         ROOT-SERVERS.net
> - gw.home.vix.com
>         192.5.5.1
>         ROOT-SERVERS.net
> 
> 
> > cygnus.com
> Server:  d.root-servers.net
> Served by:
> - rs0.internic.net
>         198.41.0.5
>         ROOT-SERVERS.net
> - ns.ripe.net
>         193.0.0.193
>         ROOT-SERVERS.net
> - gw.home.vix.com
>         192.5.5.1
>         ROOT-SERVERS.net
> 
> 
> Name:    cygnus.com
> Served by:
> - C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>         192.33.4.12
>         com
> - D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>         128.8.10.90
>         com
> - E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>         192.203.230.10
>         com
> - I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>         192.36.148.17
>         com
> - F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>         192.5.5.241
>         com
> - G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>         192.112.36.4
>         com
> - A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>         198.41.0.4
>         com
> - H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>         128.63.2.53
>         com
> - B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>         128.9.0.107
>         com
> 

Hank Nussbacher
IAHC member
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