mail.yahoo.com, "missing A records" and squid proxy

Fri Mar 9 22:34:58 UTC 2001

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:39:50PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> [ On Friday, March 9, 2001 at 14:36:26 (-0500), Shawn McMahon wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: mail.yahoo.com, "missing A records" and squid proxy
> > 
> > Possibly.  According to the RFCs that's a perfectly valid configuration,
> > but according to some pedantic anal retentives (hi, Greg!) it's not.
> 
> Well, you don't have to be much of a PAR to find a problem with this:
> 
> $ host -r -Z -t ns yahoo.akadns.net  za.akadns.net
> yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      ze.akadns.net.
> yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zk.akadns.net.
>  !!! yahoo.akadns.net NS host zk.akadns.net does not exist
> yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zh.akadns.net.
> yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zj.akadns.net.
>  !!! yahoo.akadns.net NS host zj.akadns.net does not exist
> yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zb.akadns.net.
> yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zi.akadns.net.
>  !!! yahoo.akadns.net NS host zi.akadns.net does not exist
> yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zg.akadns.net.
> yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zf.akadns.net.
> yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zc.akadns.net.
> yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zd.akadns.net.
> yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      zl.akadns.net.
>  !!! yahoo.akadns.net NS host zl.akadns.net does not exist
> yahoo.akadns.net.       90000   IN      NS      za.akadns.net.

This has now been fixed.  

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