[jifty-devel] [OT] jifty.org DNS is messed up

[John Peacock]

I tried to update my Wifty checkout and it just times out.  A quick trip through
DNS shows that jifty.org is almost completely broken.  In order:

$ dnsqr ns jifty.org
2 jifty.org:
104 bytes, 1+3+0+0 records, response, noerror
query: 2 jifty.org
answer: jifty.org 85323 NS ams-ns-1.fsck.com
answer: jifty.org 85323 NS eero.baz.org
answer: jifty.org 85323 NS som-ns-1.fsck.com

1) ams-ns-1.fsck.com is lame, i.e. it doesn't doesn't have any authoritative
records for jifty.org (note the lack of answer line):

$ dnsq ns jifty.org ams-ns-1.fsck.com
2 jifty.org:
120 bytes, 1+0+3+1 records, response, weird ra, noerror
query: 2 jifty.org
authority: jifty.org 65002 NS som-ns-1.fsck.com
authority: jifty.org 65002 NS eero.baz.org
authority: jifty.org 65002 NS ams-ns-1.fsck.com
additional: som-ns-1.fsck.com 3600 A 4.79.3.63

2) eero.baz.org isn't authoritative for jifty.org at all (it is referring to the
TLD servers):

$ dnsq ns jifty.org eero.baz.org
2 jifty.org:
189 bytes, 1+0+6+0 records, response, weird ra, noerror
query: 2 jifty.org
authority: org 168284 NS tld5.ultradns.info
authority: org 168284 NS tld6.ultradns.co.uk
authority: org 168284 NS tld1.ultradns.net
authority: org 168284 NS tld2.ultradns.net
authority: org 168284 NS tld3.ultradns.org
authority: org 168284 NS tld4.ultradns.org

3) som-ns-1.fsck.com has had a recent IP change (from 69.25.201.132 to
4.79.3.63) without waiting for the TTL to expire (I had to manually restart my
dnscache).  This server is also reporting different NS records than the parent
delegation:

$ dnsq ns jifty.org som-ns-1.fsck.com
2 jifty.org:
98 bytes, 1+2+0+1 records, response, authoritative, weird ra, noerror
query: 2 jifty.org
answer: jifty.org 3600 NS frank.baz.org
answer: jifty.org 3600 NS som-ns-1.fsck.com
additional: som-ns-1.fsck.com 3600 A 4.79.3.63

which never a good thing (I don't believe any server will trust the delegation
frank.baz.org at this point).

Effectively, jifty.org has a single working NS record, and one that has had a
recent IP change so not everyone will be able to get to it.

John

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John Peacock
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