Re: Yahoo DNS broken?

[Hank Nussbacher]

At 03:47 PM 03-12-08 -0500, Cat Okita wrote:

Can someone from Akamai report as to what happened?  I did not see any 
notice on EdgeControl but I did get email from my auto-alerts set up at 
Akamai as follows:
-------------------------------
NAME:        DNS failure
TYPE:        Origin DNS Failure
SERVICE:     HTTP Content Delivery
START TIME:  Wed, Dec 3, 12:42 GMT 2008
STOP TIME:   Wed, Dec 3, 12:50 GMT 2008

DATA:
      CP Code:                     32023
      CP Code Description:         WAA
      Hits:                        53
      Errors:                      5
      Alert Condition (% Errors):  8
      Alert Threshold:             1
      Edge IP:                     0.0.0.0

DESCRIPTION:
The Origin DNS Failure Alert indicates errors when Akamai edge servers are 
unable
to reach the origin server because they're unable to resolve the DNS name.
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So I'm curious as to what happened.

Thanks,
Hank


> Looks like some of akamai's nameservers have misplaced themselves and yahoo.
>
> cheers!
>
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Nathan Ward wrote:
> > There is no A records, correct.
> > There is a CNAME though:
> > www.wa1.b.yahoo.com.    45      IN      CNAME   www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com.
> > www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com. 45    IN      A       209.131.36.158
> >
> > On 4/12/2008, at 9:36 AM, Larry Daberko wrote:
> >
> > > I am unable to resolve www.yahoo.com.  Tracing DNS back from the root
> > > servers shows that www.yahoo.com is a CNAME to www.wa1.b.yahoo.com and
> > > there are no A records for that hostname.
> > > Anyone have more details or a Yahoo contact?  I'm unable to get to their
> > > webpage as it is :-)
> > > -Larry Daberko
> > > iServe Technologies