root nameserver problems ?

Thu Jul 17 19:09:17 UTC 1997

> Can I assume that the fact that www.microsoft.com no longer exists in the
> DNS is a result of the (ongoing) root nameserver problems?  

No.

> Things have been really flaky since the INTERNIC/ALTERNIC flap the other day.

Indeed, but not the way you think.

> daneel:8> dig www.microsoft.com @e.root-server.net

you are asking a nonrecursive server for data it doesn't have.

> ; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> www.microsoft.com @e.root-server.net 
> ; Bad server: e.root-server.net -- using default server and timer opts

in fact you are asking a nonexistent server, so it used your default one.

[gw.home:i386] dig @a.root-servers.net microsoft.com ns | grep IN
;;      microsoft.com, type = NS, class = IN
microsoft.com.          2D IN NS        DNS1.microsoft.com.
microsoft.com.          2D IN NS        DNS3.NWNET.NET.
microsoft.com.          2D IN NS        DNS4.NWNET.NET.
microsoft.com.          2D IN NS        ATBD.microsoft.com.
DNS1.microsoft.com.     2D IN A         131.107.1.240
DNS3.NWNET.NET.         2D IN A         192.220.250.7
DNS4.NWNET.NET.         2D IN A         192.220.251.7
ATBD.microsoft.com.     2D IN A         131.107.1.7