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=== 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; };
        };
}}}

==== Fedora Project ====

 * Updated `perl-Math-Pari` to 2.01080602 in the `devel` branch; we no longer need to fix the test suite for 64-bit builds

==== Local Packages ====

 * Updated `curl` to fix crash on doubly closed NSPR descriptor ([[RedHatBugzilla:534176|Bug #534176]]), add a new version of the patch for broken TLS servers ([[RedHatBugzilla:525496|Bug #525496]], [[RedHatBugzilla:527771|Bug #527771]]), and run the test suite to completion and leave debug data around (all as per Fedora)
 * Updated `perl-XML-SAX` to only add the pure-perl parser in `%post` if there are no existing parsers as described at http://perl-xml.sourceforge.net/faq/#parserdetails.ini
 * Updated `pptp` to include a debugging patch and revert the Call-Disconnect-Notify patch recently added upstream, which breaks my ADSL connection

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