TLD .so Partial Outage?

Sun May 16 12:24:02 UTC 2021

> I'm observing a near global outage of DNS services from d.nic.so. This appears to be an AfriNIC anycast DNS service. 

>From my vantage point in Oslo, Norway, d.nic.so works just fine using
IPv6 but not IPv4.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no

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% dig +norec ns so @2001:43f8:120::54

; <<>> DiG 9.16.15 <<>> +norec ns so @2001:43f8:120::54
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52669
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 5

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;so.                            IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
so.                     1200    IN      NS      d.nic.so.
so.                     1200    IN      NS      e.nic.so.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
d.nic.so.               1200    IN      AAAA    2001:43f8:120::54
e.nic.so.               1200    IN      AAAA    2001:500:14:6101:ad::1
d.nic.so.               1200    IN      A       196.216.168.54
e.nic.so.               1200    IN      A       204.61.216.101

;; Query time: 195 msec
;; SERVER: 2001:43f8:120::54#53(2001:43f8:120::54)
;; WHEN: Sun May 16 14:18:53 CEST 2021
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 155