Hi Cees! Have you changed your DNS recently? (was:Re: [Box-Admins] DNS server down)

[Case de Groot]

I wish I could help here (well I always can of course ;-)), but it wasn’t me. No need to apologize though, Chris :)

Looking up the NS for Squeak.org <http://squeak.org/>:

squeak.org.		259200	IN	NS	a.ns.squeakfoundation.org.
squeak.org.		259200	IN	NS	b.ns.squeakfoundation.org.

And then to IP addresses:

a.ns.squeakfoundation.org has address 85.10.195.197
b.ns.squeakfoundation.org has address 69.72.148.198

The next step is grab whois data for these IPs. The first one is active at Hetzner: 

inetnum:        85.10.192.0 - 85.10.207.255
netname:        HETZNER-RZ-NBG-NET
descr:          Hetzner Online AG
descr:          Datacenter Nuernberg

but the second one points to Nirvana. Strange but true, that IP doesn’t seem to be allocated (an enclosing block is allocated, but that’s all):

FortressITX FORTRESSITX (NET-69-72-128-0-1) 69.72.128.0 - 69.72.255.255

I guess that someone (and yes, that might very well have been, unknowingly, me ;-)) ran an NS on an ISP that went out of business, and thus the IP block came back for reallocation. As I still own squeakfoundation.org <http://squeakfoundation.org/>, I can repoint that. If anyone knows a spot where we can setup secondary DNS, preferably for free, ping me. Else, I’ll do some digging around to see where I can park it. I will probably need access to the primary DNS (do we still have a Hetzner host), will shout for help :-)

Regarding Gandi/GoDaddy - GoDaddy did something to piss me, and a lot of other netizens, off. And I was annoyed with them anyway :-). So I moved everything to Gandi, happy ever after. 


> On 25Nov, 2014, at 11:27, Chris Cunnington <brasspen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Without thinking about it, I propose that it’s Cees de Groot. ( I’ve cc’d Cees. If it’s not you, Cees, I apologize in advance. )
> I say this based on two past experiences. The first was several years ago he made a change to something he was doing and it hammered our DNS for as long as it took for us to contact him. I think it was because he was on GoDaddy and was protesting GoDaddy for some reason and was moving to Gandi. It was something like that. 
> The second is I recall Ken giving me a lecture about the old days, people providing reciprocal slave box service, etc, etc. I was asking about material in box2 I didn’t understand, and I got a lecture, he mentioned Cees use to be the slave DNS for Squeak. Useful now I guess. 
> He may have moved his homepage http://www.cdegroot.com <http://www.cdegroot.com/> recently. 
> 
> Chris
> 
>> On Nov 25, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu <mailto:leves at elte.hu>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> There are currently two DNS servers for squeak.org <http://squeak.org/>. One of them (the master) is hosted on box2, and it's working fine. But the other one is down, and we have no direct control over it.
>> This may affect all of our services (slower access, or even temporary outages).
>> It would be good to find out who is hosting it.
>> 
>> name: b.ns.squeakfoundation.org <http://b.ns.squeakfoundation.org/>
>> address: 69.72.148.198
>> 
>> Levente
> 

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