compaq.com strangeness?

[Mathias Koerber]

Seems like NSI lost (or deleted) the compaq.com delegation from
a.root-servers.net. This could be for non-payment of the domain,
or one of NSI's frequent problems with the master databases....

$ dig compaq.com any @a.root-servers.net

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> compaq.com any @a.root-servers.net 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10
;; flags: qr aa rd; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 0
;; QUESTIONS:
;;	compaq.com, type = ANY, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
COM.	86400	SOA	A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. hostmaster.internic.NET. (
			2000060700	; serial
			1800	; refresh (30 mins)
			900	; retry (15 mins)
			604800	; expire (7 days)
			86400 )	; minimum (1 day)

;; Total query time: 257 msec
;; FROM: singapura.singnet.com.sg to SERVER: a.root-servers.net  198.41.0.4
;; WHEN: Thu Jun  8 09:04:29 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 28  rcvd: 105


On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 icculus4128 at my-deja.com wrote:

| Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 23:10:52 GMT
| From: icculus4128 at my-deja.com
| To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
| Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
| Subject: compaq.com strangeness?
| 
| We had some complaints that users couldn't get to www.compaq.com today.
| It turns out to be a DNS resolution issue, apparently.
| 
| If I do an nslookup on the compaq.com domain, I get what appears to be
| the information for .com:
| 
| dns# nslookup
| Default Server:  dns.heurikon.com
| Address:  192.48.244.69
| 
| > set q=any
| > compaq.com
| Server:  dns.heurikon.com
| Address:  192.48.244.69
| 
| com
|         origin = A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
|         mail addr = hostmaster.internic.NET
|         serial = 2000060601
|         refresh = 1800 (30M)
|         retry   = 900 (15M)
|         expire  = 604800 (1W)
|         minimum ttl = 86400 (1D)
| 
| 
| However, all other domains appear to resolve fine, and also compaq.com
| doesn't seem to have any problems when I try it from an external ISP. It
| also works fine within nslookup when I specify a different external
| server (rather than our master DNS server).
| 
| Our root.cache hints file is up to date, and we don't seem to have any
| loss of connectivity to anyplace (specifying the IP instead of the
| hostname for www.compaq.com works fine), and this appears to be the only
| affected domain.
| 
| I grepped through all my DNS config and zone files looking for
| compaq.com (perhaps something was munged on our server?), and find
| nothing.
| 
| Any ideas?
| 
| thanks!
| 
| johns
| 
| 
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| 

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