Re: Hub.org DNS

Dave Page wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> Marc,
>>
>> Can you please confirm which of the hub.org DNS servers do and do not
>> allow recursion now, and if things are going to stay that way? We're
>> finding that some things appear to have broken recently, apparently
>> because they no longer have a suitable DNS server configured (rsync
>> access via hostname on svr4, email address validation on wwwmaster).
>>
>> A quick test shows that ns, ns2 and ns4 are recursive, but ns3 is not
>> at present.
>
> Hmm, now I'm not even sure about that - the testing above was on
> www.microsoft.com, however one of the mirrors having problems is
> 212.100.160.33 which doesn't resolve on any of the 4 hub servers, yet is
> fine from various ISP's servers on this side of the pond.

I would guess that the hub.org-resolvers you tested had
www.microsoft.com cached - so it delivered the response from cache and
did not actually recurse.


Stefan