DNS .US outage

Thu Jul 7 05:00:47 UTC 2005

Thanks.  Didn't have any *NIX boxes laying around to 'dig' any deeper.
When I checked networksolutions' whois for neosystems.us and state.ny.us
, both returned:
" We are unable to process your request at this time. Please try again
later."

Figured something was up.  But when I tried nslookup with a server on
yet a 4th ISP just now, it worked ok.   Thanks again.  

Chuck 

-----Original Message-----
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:ops.lists at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:34 AM
To: Church, Chuck
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: DNS .US outage

On 07/07/05, Church, Chuck <cchurch at netcogov.com> wrote:
>  
> Anyone else having issues with .US right now  (~12AM EST)?  NSlookup,
etc
> show various .us destinations as unknown domains...  
>   

nslookup is not the best tool to troubleshoot dns issues

works for me though -

suresh at frodo 10:02:22 [~]$ dig us NS

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> us NS
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      us, type = NS, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
us.                     1d23h59m46s IN NS  A.GTLD.BIZ.
us.                     1d23h59m46s IN NS  B.GTLD.BIZ.
us.                     1d23h59m46s IN NS  C.GTLD.BIZ.

;; Total query time: 3 msec
;; FROM: frodo.hserus.net to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Thu Jul  7 10:02:25 2005
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 20  rcvd: 76

and a random .us domain -

suresh at frodo 10:02:25 [~]$ dig help.us

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> help.us
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      help.us, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
help.us.                58m46s IN A     66.98.178.79

;; Total query time: 2 msec
;; FROM: frodo.hserus.net to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Thu Jul  7 10:03:30 2005
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 25  rcvd: 41

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)