Problem with ed.gov

[Baird, Josh]

Ugly fix, but it does work.  I already had that in place as a "band-aid"
anyways.

Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: WBrown at e1b.org [mailto:WBrown at e1b.org] 
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 2:36 PM
To: Baird, Josh
Cc: bind-users at lists.isc.org
Subject: Re: Problem with ed.gov

Josh wrote on 01/19/2012 02:06:05 PM:

> My resolvers seem to be having problems resolving ed.gov hosts.
Others
> have reported similar problems, but I am having trouble figuring out
> where the problem lies.  Some other resolvers seem to be resolving
> ed.gov correctly.  I am able to query their authoritative servers
> directly from the same network where my resolvers are located.  But,
my
> resolvers are not able to recurse to them.

[snip]> 
> Is anyone else having problems?  Can you spot anything that could be
> preventing my/our resolvers to successfully query this?
> 

Years ago, we had problems with ed.gov.  We added the following to our 
config on 2009-08-11 to forward to their name servers:

zone "ed.gov" {
        type forward;
        forwarders { 148.9.101.50; 148.9.101.52; 160.109.63.185; 
160.109.63.186;
  };
};

Ugly fix? You bet!  But the problems went away...

IIRC, we did network sniffs at the perimeter and a bunch of other 
troubleshooting to no avail.



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