Re: DNS .US outage

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:27:39PM -0500, Church, Chuck wrote:
>    Anyone  else having issues with .US right now  (~12AM EST)?  NSlookup,
>    etc show various .us destinations as unknown domains...

Not for my site, at least:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> +trace microsys.us
;; global options:  printcmd
.                       323510  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       323510  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       323510  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       323510  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       323510  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       323510  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       323510  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       323510  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       323510  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       323510  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       323510  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       323510  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       323510  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 244 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) in 33 ms

us.                     172800  IN      NS      A.GTLD.BIZ.
us.                     172800  IN      NS      B.GTLD.BIZ.
us.                     172800  IN      NS      C.GTLD.BIZ.
;; Received 133 bytes from 192.5.5.241#53(F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 87 ms

microsys.us.            7200    IN      NS      NS2.DOMAINDISCOVER.COM.
microsys.us.            7200    IN      NS      NS1.DOMAINDISCOVER.COM.
;; Received 83 bytes from 209.173.53.162#53(A.GTLD.BIZ) in 40 ms

microsys.us.            28800   IN      SOA     ns1.domaindiscover.com.
hostmaster.tierra.net. 3723050 86400 1800 604800 28800
;; Received 108 bytes from 216.104.163.3#53(NS2.DOMAINDISCOVER.COM) in
98 ms

'dig +trace', incidentally, for those of you who haven't tripped over
it yet, is *very* cool.  I'm trying to figure out a way to shoehorn the
output into something I can Nagios...

Cheers,
-- jra
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