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

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Tue Nov 25 23:38:48 UTC 2014


On 26.11.2014, at 00:36, Case de Groot <cg at cdegroot.com> wrote:

> 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:
> 
> 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, 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 :-)

I could probably provide a slave dns.

Best
	-Tobias


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