Strange DNS Resolution Issues

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed Apr 8 17:39:15 UTC 2009


In article <grgauk$1udj$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Revital Gorsht <revital at yorku.ca> wrote:

> A few weeks ago, two of several internal DNS servers were suddenly unable 
> to resolve some external sites (eg microsoft.com, yahoo.com), while all 
> internal and other external sites (eg google.com) were resolving fine. 
> Since we couldn't pinpoint the cause, the problem went on for about 5 
> hours and then magically fixed itself... we were all left scratching our 
> heads.

Both those domains use CNAME chains that go through akadns.net.  Was 
this common to all the domains you had problems with?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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