misc/103814: cvsup11.freebsd.org dns issues

[Jan Gyselinck]

The following reply was made to PR misc/103814; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jan Gyselinck <jan.gyselinck at verizonbusiness.com>
To: Vivek Khera <VIVEK at KHERA.ORG>
Cc: freebsd-hubs at FreeBSD.org, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/103814: cvsup11.freebsd.org dns issues
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:54:22 +0000

 On 26 Oct 2006, Vivek Khera wrote:
 > On Oct 26, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Juraj Lutter wrote:
 > 
 >>Vivek Khera wrote:
 >>>I was successful at doing a cvsup on 19 October, but today, 26  
 >>>October,
 >>>it is coming back with SERVFAIL name lookup.
 >>
 >>ns1.downloadtech.com is causing the problem.
 > 
 > It seems deeper than that, though.
 > 
 > If you query one of the other authoritative DNS server you get the  
 > CNAME for cvsup11:
 > 
 > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
 > cvsup11.freebsd.org.    3600    IN      CNAME   freebsd- 
 > mirror0.research.uu.net.
 > 
 > and looking that up, you get no answer for the A record.  So if you  
 > query any of the NS records for uu.net, you get referred to other NS  
 > servers for research.uu.net, and no answer to the A record:
 > 
 > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
 > research.uu.net.        3600    IN      NS      beast.research.uu.net.
 > research.uu.net.        3600    IN      NS      auth03.ns.uu.net.
 > research.uu.net.        3600    IN      NS      auth50.ns.uu.net.
 > 
 > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
 > beast.research.uu.net.  3600    IN      A       63.87.62.73
 > 
 > Querying the auth* hosts you get the same answer back; querying  
 > beast.research.uu.net I get no response:
 > 
 > 
 > % dig freebsd-mirror0.research.uu.net @beast.research.uu.net
 > dig: couldn't get address for 'beast.research.uu.net': not found
 > 
 > and even:
 > 
 > 
 > % dig freebsd-mirror0.research.uu.net @63.87.62.73
 > 
 > ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2-P1 <<>> freebsd-mirror0.research.uu.net @63.87.62.73
 > ; (1 server found)
 > ;; global options:  printcmd
 > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
 > 
 > 
 > so something is *really* wrong I think.  Normally these  
 > research.uu.net servers are just 5ms from me and I believe they're in  
 > the same data center.
 
 Oh the joys of X mergers and Y rifs...  I have no idea why beast is
 unreachable or who manages it these days, I've reconf'd the zone to 
 run primary now, so it should reappear on auth03/auth50 in the next hour.
 
 Regards
 
 
 Jan
 
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 Jan Gyselinck
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