ftp.perl.org strangeness

[David Malone]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:27:50PM -0500, Rick Knospler wrote:
> I am getting an error message
> 
> [rick at cherry ~]: ftp ftp.perl.org
> ftp: ftp.perl.org: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution
> ftp>

Just to elaborate on what Mark said...

The nameserver for ftp.perl.com has a problem when asked for any
records other than A (ie. an IPv4 address). When asked for any other
type of record, it returns NXDOMAIN, and this means "ftp.perl.com"
does not exist. It should return "0 records of this type". I've a
cgi script for diagnosing these sort of problems at:

	http://www.cnri.dit.ie/cgi-bin/check_aaaa.pl?dom=ftp.perl.org

You should probably mail ask at develooper.com and domains at develooper.com
and let them know you have had a problem and ask when they will be
able to fix their DNS load balancer.

	David.