RE: DNS .US outage

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Church, Chuck wrote:
>  Thanks for your help, guys.  Didn't know dig existed for windows.
> Several ISPs (charter.net, alter.net) are choking on .us queries right

the alter.net cache's you are using arent' guaranteed to work...
especially for non-customers :) but... in general they do work, sometimes
slowly as all manner of people use them regardless of their 'customer'
status to alternet :(

>       Is it possible that one of the authoritative servers for .us is
> unreachable/down at the moment, at least from name server 24.197.96.16's
> point of view?   198.6.1.2 gives similar results.

I'm not seeing these problems though (though that problem might have been
transient too)

; <<>> DiG 8.4 <<>> us ns @cache02.ns.uu.net
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch no-nibble2
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9205
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      us, type = NS, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
us.                     6D IN NS        c.gtld.biz.
us.                     6D IN NS        a.gtld.biz.
us.                     6D IN NS        b.gtld.biz.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.gtld.biz.             5d20h12m3s IN A  209.173.53.162
b.gtld.biz.             5d20h12m3s IN A  209.173.57.162
c.gtld.biz.             5d20h12m3s IN A  209.173.60.65

;; Total query time: 144 msec