DNS ed.gov translations

[Peter Charbonneau <Peter.Charbonneau () williams edu>]

Greetings,

  Periodically, we loose the capability of translating .ed.gov names.

  Today, it seems that it is www.dl.ed.gov and www.fafsa.ed.gov that  
will not translate.

If I use dig .... I get:

porthos2:~ pcharbon2$ dig +trace www.fafsa.ed.gov

; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P1 <<>> +trace www.fafsa.ed.gov
;; global options:  printcmd
.                       499251  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       499251  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       499251  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       499251  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       499251  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       499251  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       499251  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       499251  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       499251  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       499251  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       499251  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       499251  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       499251  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 488 bytes from 137.165.4.21#53(137.165.4.21) in 2 ms

gov.                    172800  IN      NS      E.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov.                    172800  IN      NS      G.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov.                    172800  IN      NS      A.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov.                    172800  IN      NS      B.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov.                    172800  IN      NS      C.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov.                    172800  IN      NS      D.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov.                    172800  IN      NS      F.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
;; Received 274 bytes from 192.203.230.10#53(E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 82  
ms

ed.gov.                 86400   IN      NS      eduptcdns02.ed.gov.
ed.gov.                 86400   IN      NS      eduftcdns01.ed.gov.
ed.gov.                 86400   IN      NS      eduftcdns02.ed.gov.
ed.gov.                 86400   IN      NS      eduptcdns01.ed.gov.
;; Received 202 bytes from 216.55.155.29#53(A.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM) in 84 ms

dig: couldn't get address for 'eduftcdns01.ed.gov': not found
porthos2:~ pcharbon2$


It always seems to fail after the "third" lookup sequence.

After about an hour (or two or eight) it starts working again for some  
period of time.

I am out of troubleshooting tools and don't know where to go from  
here.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.



PeteC


Peter Charbonneau
Sr. Network and Systems Administrator
Williams College
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