FORMERR for wikipedia...
Jay Ford
jay-ford at uiowa.edu
Thu Mar 17 13:48:25 UTC 2011
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Mark Andrews wrote:
> The nameservers for wikipedia.org are broken. They put the wrong
> SOA record in the negative response, wikipedia.org != wikimedia.org.
>
> M vs P
Exactly.
> The adminstrators of wikimedia.org were informed about this months
> ago but they don't seem to care. They fail to acknowledge the
> problem or to fix the problem. wikimedia.org are not alone in this.
> There are thousands on web sites that return the wrong answers to
> AAAA lookups.
>
> Meanwhile everyone wants resolver vendors to make the lookups work.
> We can't when the authoritative servers are broken. It time the
> users complained.
That's where I'm going with this, but specific information with a suggested
fix is usually better than just pointing out that it's broken. Is it known
what software and/or config causes this broken behavior?
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Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
email: jay-ford at uiowa.edu, phone: 319-335-5555, fax: 319-335-2951
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