Re: .mil nameserver problems?

[David Ulevitch <david () ulevitch com>]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Antonio Querubin <tony () lava net> wrote:
> Anyone else noticing an increase in .mil nameserver problems today? Our
> resolvers aren't able to find NS info for various .mil domains such as
> pacom.mil and usfj.mil.
>
> % dig +trace pacom.mil

Actually, a number of the .mil zones are exceptionally broken, and
pacom.mil is no exception. :-)

The .mil TLD servers seem to have loaded the entire zones and are
serving borked zones as a result.  For example, ask the TLD about
www.pacom.mil:

$ dig @PAC1.NIPR.mil. www.pacom.mil

; <<>> DiG 9.4.3-P3 <<>> @PAC1.NIPR.mil. www.pacom.mil
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35118
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.pacom.mil.                 IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.pacom.mil.          1722    IN      CNAME   www.pacom.mil.edgesuite.net.
www.pacom.mil.edgesuite.net. 401 IN     CNAME   a1112.g.akamai.net.
a1112.g.akamai.net.     20      IN      A       209.107.205.160
a1112.g.akamai.net.     20      IN      A       209.107.205.88

;; Query time: 234 msec
;; SERVER: 199.252.180.234#53(199.252.180.234)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 16 19:14:13 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 133

And if you ask for an NS record for pacom.mil, it'll give you that,
but without an additional section despite having the answers, because
it thinks it is the authoritative for that zone (I'm guessing that
explains the behavior but don't know their software).

-David