Fwd - Randy Bush in Tokyo is reporting WMF donation server DNS issues.
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From: Randy Bush <randy(a)psg.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:44 PM
Subject: wikimedia dns issue
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog(a)nanog.org>
leslie, you out there?
ryuu.psg.com:/Users/randy> host
links.email.donate.wikimedia.org.
links.email.donate.wikimedia.org is an alias for
recp.mkt41.net.
recp.mkt41.net has address 74.121.50.40
$ dscacheutil -flushcache
does not clear it
this is all in tokyo. so i ssh into a server in seattle westin.
psg.com:/usr/home/randy> host
links.email.donate.wikimedia.org.
links.email.donate.wikimedia.org is an alias for
recp.mkt41.net.
recp.mkt41.net has address 74.121.50.40
the real or unreal CNAME RR is pretty prevalent
pretoria
root@afnog:~ # host
links.email.donate.wikimedia.org.
links.email.donate.wikimedia.org is an alias for
recp.mkt41.net.
recp.mkt41.net has address 74.121.50.40
london starts to scare me
drinx.linx.net:/root# host
links.email.donate.wikimedia.org.
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
drinx.linx.net:/root# host
links.email.donate.wikimedia.org.
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
so i look at the nearest zone i can find
ryuu.psg.com:/Users/randy> doc -p -w
donate.wikimedia.org.
Doc-2.2.3: doc -p -w
donate.wikimedia.org.
Doc-2.2.3: Starting test of
donate.wikimedia.org. parent is
wikimedia.org.
Doc-2.2.3: Test date - Tue Nov 26 10:46:48 JST 2013
SYSerr: No servers for
donate.wikimedia.org. returned SOAs ...
Summary:
YIKES: doc aborted while testing
donate.wikimedia.org. parent
wikimedia.org.
Incomplete test for
donate.wikimedia.org. (1)
Done testing
donate.wikimedia.org. Tue Nov 26 10:46:49 JST 2013
at least the parent is ok
ryuu.psg.com:/Users/randy> doc -p -w
wikimedia.org.
Doc-2.2.3: doc -p -w
wikimedia.org.
Doc-2.2.3: Starting test of
wikimedia.org. parent is org.
Doc-2.2.3: Test date - Tue Nov 26 10:47:45 JST 2013
Summary:
No errors or warnings issued for
wikimedia.org.
Done testing
wikimedia.org. Tue Nov 26 10:47:48 JST 2013
aha!
ryuu.psg.com:/Users/randy> ns
donate.wikimedia.org.
donate-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org.
i suspect a load balancer
yes, i reported this to wikimedia two days ago. a response, then black
hole. problem persists.
randy
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com