Paul's Blog Entries for November 2009

Monday 2nd November 2009

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Wednesday 4th November 2009

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Thursday 5th November 2009

Wiki

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There is now a Fedora 12 release of my local repository. It'll track the development repository until around Fedora 12 GA (currently scheduled for 17th November), and then the development repository will start targeting Fedora 13.

Friday 6th November 2009

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Monday 9th November 2009

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Tuesday 10th November 2009

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Wednesday 11th November 2009

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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; };
        };

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Friday 13th November 2009

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Monday 16th November 2009

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Tuesday 17th November 2009

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Wednesday 18th November 2009

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Thursday 19th November 2009

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Friday 20th November 2009

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Saturday 21st November 2009

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Monday 23rd November 2009

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Tuesday 24th November 2009

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Wednesday 25th November 2009

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Thursday 26th November 2009

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Friday 27th November 2009

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Saturday 28th November 2009

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Sunday 29th November 2009

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