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From: mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF)
Subject: Re: ref.tfs.com frequently unrecognized by DNS
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:00:55 GMT
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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?
> 
> 
> --
> --                                                        ___________________
>   R.Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc.Prof., (Off)313-762-9765  /   _____  ______ 
>   Humanities & Social Science,  GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst.   /        / /  /  / /
>   Flint, MI 48504      ellis@nova.gmi.edu              /________/ /  /  / /


mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario