Randy,
Thanks for the concern -- if I understand your email correct the issue is
not that you cannot resolve
donate.wikimedia.org; but it's that one of our
subdomains resolves to something that's not a WMF server?
If so; the behavior you're seeing, that
links.email.donate.wikimedia.org goes
to ?.mkt41.net is correct. What we're doing is year is using an external
bulk mailer to try and ensure deliverability of fundraising mail (it turns
out that we get about $1 per email so getting good deliverability is pretty
important.) The bulk mailer, Silverpop, does link rewriting in the body of
the email for use statistical things (we A/B test our emails and use their
dashboards to do so).
For what its worth our donor rights policy [1] applies to this type of data.
[1]
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donor_policy
~Matt Walker
Wikimedia Foundation
Fundraising Technology Team
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Randy Bush <randy(a)psg.com> wrote:
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