Alaska DNS

Fri Oct 24 22:43:18 UTC 2008

In message <785694cd0810241059q34195a9am4d9e867e13bcb0a0 at mail.gmail.com>, JoeSo
x writes:
> Is anyone else troubleshooting some Alaska domains the past two days?
> ACS related?
> 
> 
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Joseph>ping dowlandbach.com
> 
> Pinging dowlandbach.com [209.112.129.41] with 32 bytes of data:
> 
> Reply from 209.112.129.41: bytes=32 time=233ms TTL=45
> Reply from 209.112.129.41: bytes=32 time=235ms TTL=45
> Reply from 209.112.129.41: bytes=32 time=300ms TTL=45
> Reply from 209.112.129.41: bytes=32 time=252ms TTL=45
> 
> Ping statistics for 209.112.129.41:
>     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>     Minimum = 233ms, Maximum = 300ms, Average = 255ms
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Joseph>ping edc-alaska.com
> Ping request could not find host edc-alaska.com. Please check the name and tr
> y a
> gain.

	So there are no address records.  There doesn't have to be.
	If you think there is a problem contact dnsadmin at acsalaska.net

	P.S. using a tool that is designed to display the results of
	a DNS query is usually much better than using ping for DNS
	trouble shooting.

	Mark

; <<>> DiG 9.3.5-P2 <<>> any edc-alaska.com @ns4-auth.alaska.net
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59826
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 6

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;edc-alaska.com.			IN	ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
edc-alaska.com.		43200	IN	SOA	ns0.acsalaska.net. dnsadmin.acsalaska.net. 2008102400 28800 3600 1209600 43200
edc-alaska.com.		43200	IN	NS	ns1.acsalaska.net.
edc-alaska.com.		43200	IN	NS	ns4.acsalaska.net.
edc-alaska.com.		43200	IN	NS	ns3.acsalaska.net.
edc-alaska.com.		43200	IN	NS	ns2.acsalaska.net.
edc-alaska.com.		43200	IN	MX	10 mail.edc-alaska.com.
edc-alaska.com.		43200	IN	MX	20 etrn.acsalaska.net.
edc-alaska.com.		43200	IN	TXT	"$Id: edc-alaska.com.db,v 1.17 2007/07/21 00:01:02 kohfield Exp $"

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.acsalaska.net.	43200	IN	A	204.17.139.1
ns2.acsalaska.net.	43200	IN	A	209.112.128.1
ns3.acsalaska.net.	43200	IN	A	216.67.0.1
ns4.acsalaska.net.	43200	IN	A	209.193.0.1
mail.edc-alaska.com.	43200	IN	A	209.112.170.23
etrn.acsalaska.net.	43200	IN	A	209.112.173.228

;; Query time: 218 msec
;; SERVER: 209.193.0.1#53(209.193.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Oct 25 09:38:55 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 381

> C:\Documents and Settings\Joseph>ping www.edc-alaska.com
> 
> Pinging aws01.nwc.acsalaska.net [209.112.129.41] with 32 bytes of data:
> 
> Reply from 209.112.129.41: bytes=32 time=251ms TTL=45
> Reply from 209.112.129.41: bytes=32 time=235ms TTL=45
> Reply from 209.112.129.41: bytes=32 time=247ms TTL=45
> Reply from 209.112.129.41: bytes=32 time=252ms TTL=45
> 
> Ping statistics for 209.112.129.41:
>     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>     Minimum = 235ms, Maximum = 252ms, Average = 246ms
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\Joseph>
> 
> --
> Later, Joe
> 
-- 
Mark Andrews, ISC
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org