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Re: .mil dns problems?

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 21:27:59 +0200

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 09:16:35AM -1000,
 Antonio Querubin <tony () lava net> wrote 
 a message of 10 lines which said:

Anyone seeing trouble resolving some .mil hostnames consistently today?


Yes, most DNS servers of .MIL are unresponsive:

% check_soa mil
There was no response from EUR2.NIPR.mil
CON2.NIPR.mil has serial number 2010052701
There was no response from PAC1.NIPR.mil
There was no response from PAC2.NIPR.mil
There was no response from CON1.NIPR.mil
There was no response from EUR1.NIPR.mil

% check_soa mil
There was no response from EUR1.NIPR.mil
There was no response from CON2.NIPR.mil
There was no response from CON1.NIPR.mil
There was no response from EUR2.NIPR.mil
There was no response from PAC2.NIPR.mil
There was no response from PAC1.NIPR.mil

DoS attack, may be?

Current thread:

.mil dns problems? Antonio Querubin (May 27)
- Re: .mil dns problems? James Bensley (May 27)
- Re: .mil dns problems? Stephane Bortzmeyer (May 27)
  - Re: .mil dns problems? Florian Weimer (May 27)
    - Re: .mil dns problems? Graeme Fowler (May 27)
- Re: .mil dns problems? Doug Barton (May 28)