senate.gov down

Sat Jun 7 14:47:11 UTC 2008

No problem by IP, it's an OpenDNS problem, seven hours and they still 
don't resolve it.

Bruce Williams

Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> Querying from here (inside 69.59.128.0/18), I see sen-dmzp.senate.gov (156.33.195.40) and sen-dmzs.senate.gov (156.33.195.41) returning authoritatively for senate.gov:
>
> ----------
>
> jonathan at sfo:~$ dig @156.33.195.40 senate.gov. in a
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> @156.33.195.40 senate.gov. in a
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50611
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;senate.gov.                    IN      A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> senate.gov.             10800   IN      A       156.33.195.33
>
> ----------
>
> What if you query the nameservers directly by IP instead of by name?
>
> Cheers,
> jonathan
>
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:01:39AM -0700, Bruce Williams wrote:
>   
>>    *   Looking for who is responsible for root zone and followed
>>      b.root-servers.net.
>>    * Looking for who is responsible for gov and followed
>>      g.gov.zoneedit.com.
>>    * Looking for who is responsible for senate.gov and followed
>>      sen-dmzp.senate.gov.
>>
>>
>>        Nameservers for www.senate.gov:
>>
>>    * *sen-dmzp.senate.gov* returned (SERVFAIL)
>>    * *sen-dmzs.senate.gov* returned (SERVFAIL)
>>
>> Bruce Williams
>>
>>     
>
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