Re: LTUAE

[richard@elmail.co.uk (Richard Kettlewell)]

Dale Scheetz writes:
>Well, I still can't get to master. 206.139.73.161 isn't answering again. 
>Master.debian.org reports an address of 192.6.120.248 (which I assume is 
>the no-longer-existant old master) which doesn't answer either.

Apropos this, I *think* what's happening is that the root name servers
have stale glue records.  We got bitten by this recently, finding that
the Internic was reporting glue records for dns0.elmail.co.uk (and I'm
not convinced it has any business whatsoever providing glue records
for co.uk names).  I think someone should shout at them...

richard@sfere:richard$ dig master.debian.org @a.root-servers.net

; <<>> DiG 2.1 <<>> master.debian.org @a.root-servers.net 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10
;; flags: qr rd; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 4, Addit: 3
;; QUESTIONS:
;;	master.debian.org, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
master.debian.org.	172800	A	192.6.120.248

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
DEBIAN.ORG.	172800	NS	master.debian.org.
DEBIAN.ORG.	172800	NS	CHIARK.CHU.CAM.AC.UK.
DEBIAN.ORG.	172800	NS	NS1.WIRELESS.COM.
DEBIAN.ORG.	172800	NS	HPCSOS.COL.HP.COM.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
master.debian.org.	172800	A	192.6.120.248
NS1.WIRELESS.COM.	172800	A	206.13.40.10
HPCSOS.COL.HP.COM.	172800	A	15.255.240.16

;; Total query time: 673 msec
;; FROM: sfere to SERVER: a.root-servers.net  198.41.0.4
;; WHEN: Wed Apr  3 20:35:26 1996
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 35  rcvd: 215

richard@sfere:richard$ exit

FWIW, I can see the new master from here.

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Richard Kettlewell
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