DNS .US outage

Thu Jul 7 12:37:25 UTC 2005

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:25:20AM -0500,
 Church, Chuck <cchurch at netcogov.com> wrote 
 a message of 109 lines which said:

> 	Is it possible that one of the authoritative servers for .us
> is unreachable/down at the moment, at least from name server
> 24.197.96.16's point of view?

It is perfectly possible. Unfortunately, all three nameservers of
".us" are behind the same AS and, unfortunately, they are all in the
same /16. Checking the filters is a first step.

PS: tracert exists on MS-Windows and c.gtld.biz replies to it.