possible ORG problems, maybe?

Thu Oct 16 04:52:31 UTC 2003

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:05:25AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> 
> I think I'm seeing problems performing recursive queries for names 
> under ORG against tld[12].ultradns.net at the moment, which is causing 
> resolvers without cached data to behave as if domains don't exist.
> 
> It's not trivial to tell whether this is just a local problem, since 
> all the authoritative nameservers for ORG are anycast instances (i.e. I 
> might just be unlucky in that my local tld[12].ultradns.net nodes are 
> behaving unexpectedly). Is anybody else seeing issues?

Yes. My personal system's in the .org domain, and I just had outbound
mail bounced claiming:

Domain of sender address jeffw at smoe.org does not exist

My nameservers are very diverse, so I'm wondering what's going on
with .org this week.

I'll be happy to provide details to interested parties.

-j