more and final on Libya disappears from the Internet (NOT)

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:30:26 -0700
From: Joe Touch <touch () ISI EDU>
Subject: ... Libya disappears from the Internet (NOT)
To: dave () farber net

Hi, Dave,

Here's a summary of a couple of replies I just sent, with a little more 
info that might be useful.

Joe

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1) .ly is not 'off the net'

        the root servers indicate two authoritative servers for .ly:

                ns1.magic-moments.com - which is not serving .ly anymore
                                (0 .ly records)

                auth02.ns.uu.net - which has 2,876 DNS records in .ly,
                        and is answering queries just fine
                        "dig @auth02.ns.uu.net ly. axfr"

2) lydomains.com's website doesn't confirm the email that they are
   no longer serving .ly

        Their site says nothing about 'losing the delegation'

3) something is definitely amiss in the DNS
        lydomains.com's DNS (not authoritative, but a clue) lists
        magic-moments DNS as authoritiative for .ly

        magic-moments's DNS has NO .ly SOA records, i.e., doesn't
        indicate either itself or uu.net as authoritative

        uu.net's DNS lists only itself (auth02.ns.uu.net)
        as authoritative for .ly

        the root servers list both auth02.ns.uu.net and
        ns1.magic-moments.com as authoritative for .ly

    That sort of inconsistency is a hint that something is amiss, IMO.

FWIW, the UU.NET entry appears to have been modified on March 31, 2004 (the 
SOA record serial number appears to use the common convention), but that 
doesn't necessarily indicate a problem.

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Joseph D. Touch                              http://www.isi.edu/touch
Director, Postel Center
USC/ISI
Research Assoc. Prof.
USC CS and EE-Systems Depts.



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