FAQ and Wiki down?

[Alan DeKok]

Alexander Clouter wrote:
> Sometimes hostmaster@ should receive some pain for misconfiguration:
...
> alex at chipmunk:~$ host -t NS freeradius.org ns3.freeradius.org
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

  That's been down for a while...

> alex at chipmunk:~$ host -t NS freeradius.org ns6.freeradius.org
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

  That should not have been down.  It got rebooted, and powerdns didn't
come back up.

> alex at chipmunk:~$ host -t NS freeradius.org ns5.freeradius.org
> Using domain server:
> Name: ns5.freeradius.org
> Address: 88.191.76.128#53

  That's the one I monitor continuously.

> For some reason freeradius has three NS servers being spat out by the 
> .org TLD authority boxen, you ask the *only* responding authority server 
> for freeradius.org and it comes back that there are only two authoritative 
> servers for the zone. :)

  Yes, well...

> If this is a recent breakage, it's possible either ns3 or ns6 gave back 
> something interesting (NXDOMAIN for example) which have be cached by 
> your resolver just before it completely went down.
> 
> Either way, freeradius.org probably could do with more than one 
> authoritive DNS server :)

  It should have two.

  Alan DeKok.