FORMERR for wikipedia...

[Jay Ford]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Mark Bergsma wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:48 AM, Jay Ford wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Mark Andrews wrote:
>>> The nameservers for wikipedia.org are broken.  They put the wrong
>>> SOA record in the negative response, wikipedia.org != wikimedia.org.
>
>>> The adminstrators of wikimedia.org were informed about this months
>>> ago but they don't seem to care.  They fail to acknowledge the
>>> problem or to fix the problem.  wikimedia.org are not alone in this.
>>> There are thousands on web sites that return the wrong answers to
>>> AAAA lookups.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile everyone wants resolver vendors to make the lookups work.
>>> We can't when the authoritative servers are broken.  It time the
>>> users complained.
>>
>> That's where I'm going with this, but specific information with a 
>> suggested fix is usually better than just pointing out that it's broken. 
>> Is it known what software and/or config causes this broken behavior?
>

> It's PowerDNS 2.9.22 that is breaking this, and it will be fixed by 
> PowerDNS 3.0 once that's released, and we get around to deploying it.
> HTH!

Indeed it helps.  Thanks for the info & good luck with the upgrade.

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Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
email: jay-ford at uiowa.edu, phone: 319-335-5555, fax: 319-335-2951