Thursday 12th November 2009
btinternet.com
The btinternet.com domain effectively fell off the Internet - DNS queries for the domain came back NXDOMAIN (i.e. no such domain):
$ dig @a.GTLD-SERVERS.NET btinternet.com ns ; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P1-RedHat-9.6.1-6.P1.fc11 <<>> @a.GTLD-SERVERS.NET btinternet.com ns ; (2 servers found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 3961 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;btinternet.com. IN NS ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: com. 900 IN SOA a.gtld-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 1258018026 1800 900 604800 86400 ;; Query time: 135 msec ;; SERVER: 192.5.6.30#53(192.5.6.30) ;; WHEN: Thu Nov 12 09:27:29 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 105
This is an authoritative response from the main DNS server for .com domains.
I discovered the problem as a result of mail for btinternet.com addresses bouncing on my mail server. At first I assumed it was a problem at my end but further investigation revealed that not to be the case.
I did a whois lookup on the btinternet.com domain and that returned sane values, including the DNS servers that should be handling the domain:
Domain servers in listed order: RBSDNS04.BT.NET 213.123.21.244 RBSDNS02.BT.NET 213.123.27.212 RBSDNS03.BT.NET 213.123.21.243 RBSDNS01.BT.NET 213.123.27.211
The issue is now resolved but the workaround I used in the meantime was to fix my local nameserver (ISC BIND) to forward queries for btinternet.com addresses to the addresses listed above:
// btinternet.com fell off Internet zone "btinternet.com" { type forward; forward only; forwarders { 213.123.21.243; 213.123.21.244; 213.123.27.211; 213.123.27.212; }; };
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