Re: 'gnome.org' DNS problems (was: submit bugs gnome org down?)

[Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci redhat com>]

> On จ., 2005-07-04 at 10:47 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > søn, 03,.07.2005 kl. 23.40 +0300, skrev Martin-Eric Racine:
> > > I have a feeling that something is seriously wrong in gnome.org DNS zones. 
> > > It's been a number of days since those server changes and yet, as I have 
> > > been able to verify on a variety of shell accounts I have access to, in 
> > > several countries, the MX is still as above.
> > > 
> > I see the same here this morning.
> > 
> > [kmaraas localhost jhbuild]$ host -t MX bugzilla.gnome.org
> > bugzilla.gnome.org mail is handled by 10 bugzilla.gnome.org.
> > bugzilla.gnome.org mail is handled by 50 mail.gnome.org.
> > 
> > Adding gnome-sysadmin to Cc:
> > 
> 
> (Copying gnome-infrastructure to publicise my idiocy)
> 
> Sorry, my fault completely (idiot!). I didn't notice the 'manage hosts'
> option in the network solutions web interface last week, when I tried to
> update the 'gnome.org' whois data. I thought you just had to refresh the
> form containing the list of nameservers (doh!). I've just a moment ago
> noticed the 'manage hosts' option and used it to updated the IP address
> registered for 'ns-master.gnome.org'. It says it'll take up to 72 hours
> to propagate etc. Sorry. I will shortly beat myself to death with a
> frying pan as punishment for severe stupidity.
> 
> And talking of DNS, I still haven't seen any responses from the
> maintainers of our slave servers to say that they've updated the IP
> address they slave from. Both slave servers are still failing to resolve
> 'gnome.org' records, as far as I can tell:
> 
> $ dig @ns.axu.tm master.gnome.org A
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @ns.axu.tm master.gnome.org A
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> $ dig @orgo.progsoc.uts.edu.au master.gnome.org A
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @orgo.progsoc.uts.edu.au master.gnome.org A
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

I have been serving the new NS maps from the previous ns-master ip address
since at least thursday. I think this mitigated most of the problems.

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Matthew Galgoci
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Red Hat, Inc
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