FW: genieweb.com answering for COM

[Rodney Joffe <rjoffe () genuity net>]

This has been corrected temporarily. With brute force ;-)

Genieweb is a downstream customer of Los Nettos, one of our customers.
No-one has been able to reach the company or the contact, so their T1
was just taken down. I expect a call rather soon, so we can get them to
fix their mistake.

But it does bring up an interesting point.... is it that easy to create
chaos? They are so far down the food chain, and yet....



Rodney Joffe
Chief Technology Officer
Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company
http://www.genuity.net



> -----Original Message-----
> From: seanl () literati org [SMTP:seanl () literati org]
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 1997 9:59 AM
> To:   nanog () merit edu
> Subject:      genieweb.com answering for COM
>
> com.    304     SOA     genieweb.com. root.genieweb.com. (
>                         11      ; serial
>                         10800   ; refresh (3 hours)
>                         3600    ; retry (1 hour)
>                         604800  ; expire (7 days)
>
> This was cached on one our name servers.  Sure enough, dig any com
> @genieweb.com shows:
>
> ;; ANSWERS:
> com.    86400   SOA     genieweb.com. root.genieweb.com. (
>                         11      ; serial
>                         10800   ; refresh (3 hours)
>                         3600    ; retry (1 hour)
>                         604800  ; expire (7 days)
>                         86400 ) ; minimum (1 day)
> com.    86400   NS      genieweb.com.
>  
> ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
> com.    86400   NS      genieweb.com.
>  
> ;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
> genieweb.com.   86400   A       198.147.97.23
>
> I wonder if this is what has been causing random COM domain lookups to
> fail for random people at random places.
>
> The time I can see this affecting a name server is if it does a lookup
> for a domain that's lamely delegated to genieweb.com, and then caches
> the 'com' reply.
>
> I've already left voicemail for the genieweb people.
>
>
> -- 
> Sean R. Lynch <seanl () literati org>

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