Register.com DNS hosting issues

Sat Apr 4 23:20:16 UTC 2009

> But looking back at incidents such as the Zonelabs/Abovenet issue,
> your advice is correct for the network we have today.

as that rfc is over a decade old, i am not optimistic that change is
neigh <sigh>.

and it is amusing to see

;; ANSWER SECTION:
harvard.edu.            10794   IN      NS      ns2.harvard.edu.
harvard.edu.            10794   IN      NS      ns3.br.harvard.edu.
harvard.edu.            10794   IN      NS      ns.harvard.edu.
harvard.edu.            10794   IN      NS      ns1.harvard.edu.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.harvard.edu.         10794   IN      A       128.103.201.100
ns1.harvard.edu.        10794   IN      A       128.103.200.101
ns2.harvard.edu.        10794   IN      A       128.103.1.1
ns3.br.harvard.edu.     10794   IN      A       128.119.3.170

and

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mit.edu.                21600   IN      NS      STRAWB.mit.edu.
mit.edu.                21600   IN      NS      W20NS.mit.edu.
mit.edu.                21600   IN      NS      BITSY.mit.edu.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
BITSY.mit.edu.          21600   IN      A       18.72.0.3
STRAWB.mit.edu.         21600   IN      A       18.71.0.151
W20NS.mit.edu.          21600   IN      A       18.70.0.160

but microsoft/hotmail learned the lesson the hard way, if you remember,
and look to have reasonable looking deployment, though i have not looked
at traceroutes.

randy