Who broke .org?

Christopher L. Morrow christopher.morrow at mci.com
Fri Jul 2 02:37:31 UTC 2004



On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Tim Wilde wrote:

>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>
> > maybe they had some whacky attack like Akamai got? I'll have to troll the
> > nanog archives for the info on finding which/where/what .org TLD box you
> > are querying when there are problems. Rodney had noted that such info is
> > helpful for them to figure out what parts of their pods are having
> > problems.
>
> dig @tld1.ultradns.net. whoareyou.ultradns.net.
>
> Will tell you the IP you're talking to.
>
> dig @tld1.ultradns.net. whoami.ultradns.net.
>
> Will tell you who it thinks you are.

that's the stuff I was searching for :)

>
> Unfortunately, neither of those is very helpful if the query is timing
> out.  I think Rodney has mentioned that traceroutes are helpful in that
> case, though.
>

Yea, I suppose I was striving for the: "Don't tell me the internet is
busted, tell me how you think it's busted"  Thanks!



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