odbc.ucas.com lookup problem

[Phil Mayers]

On 20/07/10 15:10, Chris Thompson wrote:
> We're having some local reports about delays resolving odbc.ucas.com.
> The problem is undoubtedly the response of "ns-lp.ucas.com", which
> seems to be some sort of load balancer, to AAAA queries. I get log
> entries from BIND like
>
> Jul 20 14:35:12 koala.csi.cam.ac.uk named[4539]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice]
>    DNS format error from 194.80.160.250#53 resolving odbc.ucas.com/AAAA
>    for client 127.0.0.1#42869: invalid response
>
> However, I haven't yet been able to work out exactly *what* is wrong
> with the response, as demonstrated by dig (say). Any ideas?
>

FWIW we can't resolve it either. My colleague says that UCAS have broken 
their DNS in the past as well, though possibly not in the same way.