Re: [ga] Root-Servers missing: g.root-servers.net and k.root-servers.net

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe and all,

  Yes indeed the US Military like the Canadian military complex
often gets attacks routed through the IANA.  Frankly this is or
has been concerning.  I for one am glad to see that as you indicated
that the US Military establishment has finnaly taken the wise and
necessary course of action and filtered out the IANA mess.

Joe Baptista wrote:

> I got the same thing on my end this morning.  But it has since been
> fixed.  There indeed is an issue at 198.26.75.42 - which is the
> department of defense - usa - but it might just be some filtering is
> being done to ward off an attack.  DoD gets a lot of cyber attacks on
> a daily basis so it looks like 198.26.75.42 is filtering out icmp at
> the iana g.root.
>
> regards
> joe baptista
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Peter Dambier <peter@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>
>      Hello,
>
>      I guess it might be a local glitch, anycast?
>
>      Root-Servers SOA records
>
>      soa(".","2008072800","a.root-servers.net","198.41.0.4").
>      soa(".","2008072701","b.root-servers.net","192.228.79.201").
>
>      soa(".","2008072800","c.root-servers.net","192.33.4.12").
>      soa(".","2008072800","d.root-servers.net","128.8.10.90").
>      soa(".","2008072800","e.root-servers.net","192.203.230.10").
>
>      soa(".","2008072800","f.root-servers.net","192.5.5.241").
>      error(".","g.root-servers.net","192.112.36.4","no
>      response").
>      soa(".","2008072800","h.root-servers.net","128.63.2.53").
>      soa(".","2008072800","i.root-servers.net","192.36.148.17").
>      soa(".","2008072800","j.root-servers.net","192.58.128.30").
>      error(".","k.root-servers.net","193.0.14.129","no
>      response").
>      soa(".","2008072800","l.root-servers.net","199.7.83.42").
>      soa(".","2008072800","m.root-servers.net","202.12.27.33").
>
>
>      Trying traceroute says
>
>      traceroute to g.root-servers.net (192.112.36.4), 64 hops
>      max, 40 byte packets
>       1  yttrium.anul.nsa (7.19.30.39)  1 ms  0 ms  0 ms
>       2  * * *
>       3  217.0.78.58 (217.0.78.58)  46 ms  45 ms  44 ms
>       4  62.154.15.161 (62.154.15.161)  177 ms  177 ms  178 ms
>       5  62.156.128.158 (62.156.128.158)  176 ms  178 ms  177 ms
>       6  cer-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.139.149)  178 ms
>      177 ms  178 ms
>       7  chi-core-01.inet.qwest.net (67.14.9.10)  178 ms  178 ms
>      178 ms
>       8  * chi-edge-08.inet.qwest.net (205.171.20.118)  177 ms *
>       9  216.207.8.198 (216.207.8.198)  189 ms  190 ms  188 ms
>      10  198.26.75.33 (198.26.75.33)  188 ms  190 ms  189 ms
>      11  198.26.75.42 (198.26.75.42)  188 ms  190 ms  188 ms
>      12  * * *
>      13  * * *
>
>      So routing does not know where to find "g".
>
>      traceroute to k.root-servers.net (193.0.14.129), 64 hops
>      max, 40 byte packets
>       1  yttrium.anul.nsa (7.19.30.39)  1 ms  0 ms  0 ms
>       2  * * *
>       3  217.0.78.54 (217.0.78.54)  46 ms  45 ms  45 ms
>       4  194.25.6.201 (194.25.6.201)  63 ms  63 ms  64 ms
>       5  f10.router.linx.k.ripe.net (217.79.160.94)  61 ms  62
>      ms  61 ms
>       6  k.root-servers.net (193.0.14.129)  64 ms  63 ms  63 ms
>
>      "k" has come back or has been redirected.
>
>      Kind regards
>      Peter
>
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>
>
>
>
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