creeping death ???

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Tommy McLeod <tommy.mcleod at vuw.ac.nz> wrote:

>> 
>> Temporary routing error ?
>> 
>> I can resolve it from sweden ( telia) 
>> 
>> Try http://zonecheck.manet.nu it's located in sweden ( and don't like your
>> zonr becouse of you beeing restrictive about queries outisde your zone 
>> ( which in itself is a good behaviour. In addition all your nameservers
>> are located on the same network, so ant routing disturbances WILL
>> make your zone disappear. Many people does this, MS did it last spring
>> when they erased themself from Internet ( too bad they fixed it :-)

> Yeah, they're both in 130.195/16, however, thats by necessity rather
> than choice .... besides, if those two disappear of the network, so will
> the rest of the 130.195/16 netblock so resolution will be the least of
> our worries ...... and also restrictive because we get hammered by the
> rest of new zealand (we used to be a secondary for .nz) ...

If you has one slave outside mail woul be queued instead of failing

As there exists a number of cheap/free good slaves out there there is 
no good excuse not to arrange this.  See www.secondary.com for an example.

> In reply to other questions,

> its bind 8,

> heres a dig from our end 



>  dig @rata.vuw.ac.nz soa iea-shc.org

> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> @rata.vuw.ac.nz soa iea-shc.org
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49690
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;iea-shc.org.                   IN      SOA

> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> iea-shc.org.            86400   IN      SOA     rata.vuw.ac.nz.
> hostmaster.vuw.a
> c.nz. 2002140032 86400 3600 3600000 86400

> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> iea-shc.org.            86400   IN      NS      rata.vuw.ac.nz.
> iea-shc.org.            86400   IN      NS      totara.its.vuw.ac.nz.

> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> rata.vuw.ac.nz.         172800  IN      A       130.195.2.11
> totara.its.vuw.ac.nz.   172800  IN      A       130.195.2.249

> ;; Query time: 33 msec
> ;; SERVER: 130.195.2.11#53(rata.vuw.ac.nz)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Sep 26 08:49:00 2002
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 161


>> 




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