FORMERR for wikipedia...

[Jay Ford]

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