Re: Yet Another SN@FU: "Excite@Home outage hits thousands"

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From: Kenneth Crudup
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 00:00

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In article <335f2tsludl29rlh6sjc8tu65bm1cs6b2d@4ax.com>,
Oliver Costich <olc-ca@home.com> says:

>Or are they just that stupid? The recorded message said that mail was
>down. But news was too, and they failed to mention that. 

Actually, news *was* up, but their DNS SOA (Start of Authority) information
was either missing or corrupted, so you couldn't get to 'em except via
an IP address.

Here's the funny part: I did a "whois" on HOME-DOM (the home.com top-level)
and found their primary DNS servers, NS1- and NS2- .home.net (24.0.0.27 and
24.2.0.27, respectively). "nslookup" using "server ns[12].home.net was able
to resolve every @Home address correctly- I used it to verify the news server
was up in the SFBA. I'm not sure why their top-level info didn't cascade out,
since it appeared to be valid- probably due to caching issues and/or TTL
values.

	-Kenny

-- 
Kenneth R. Crudup   Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914     		Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914   kenny@panix.com
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217  Fremont, CA 94536-7525		(510) 745-8181
Work:  See: "Home2". The hell with slow Bay Area drivers!	(510) 745-0101

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Subject: Re: Yet Another SN@FU: "Excite@Home outage hits thousands"
Date: 2000/12/01
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