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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: ref.tfs.com frequently unrecognized by DNS
Message-ID: <1992Nov23.071215.9719@tfs.com>
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
References: <ellis.722460485@nova> <946NuB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:12:15 GMT
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In article <946NuB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF) writes:
>ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) writes:
>
>I have had the same problem. Most people said for me to check with nslookup,
>but it simply disappears for us.
>
>Our DNS guru yanked the dns data and found some error from that site and sent
>an email message. I am not sure what was done though. Something about two
>nameservers having conflicting info.
>
>
>> All day today, but frequently in the past as well, DNS, including nslookup,
>> has been unable to find ref, either by name or IP address. Is this
>> scheduled or unscheduled ( :) ) downtime?
>>
>> What causes ref to disappear from the route maps? How long does it have to
>> be down before it is taken out? How long does it take for it to propagate
>> when it comes back up?
>>
>>
Ok, here's the story.
ref.tfs.com is part nominally of the tfs.com tree of nodes
however it differs in that it is on the OUTSIDE of our gateway to make
it available to you guys.
Gateway.tfs.com has been notified of the new machine "REF"
but our secondary nameservers (who are also authorised to be authorative)
are nc.cs.berkeley.edu and jade.berkeley.edu
Unfortunatly I cannot convince anyone at berkeley that their
nameservers are not picking up the information about the new machine
from our nameserver. (despite a new serial number)
If you are unlucky enough to be directed to one of the berkeley
nameservers they don't know about ref.
end of story.
also ref crashes sometimes (or just freezes waiting on buffers)
in which case I can't reboot it if I'm at home, so
sometimes it's out of service for a few hours.
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