[Outages-discussion] [outages] Network Solutions, Register.com, etc. Authoritative DNS

[Andy Ringsmuth]

Well, at least they are “working relentlessly” to fix it…

But they don’t know what is broken/what caused the broken-ness(or so they say).

How does one fix something when they don’t know what is wrong?



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> On May 5, 2021, at 10:36 AM, Mike Hammett via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
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> Network Solutions, Register.com, and others under the same ownership are having problems with their authoritative DNS systems. That means that anyone that uses only those companies for their authoritative DNS is potentially unreachable.
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> https://twitter.com/netsolcares/status/1389768210904387584
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> It looks like we're over 24 hours into this outage. This is a reminder that having authoritative DNS in multiple anycast networks is a pretty easy thing to do and would protect you from things like this.
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> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
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> Midwest Internet Exchange
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> The Brothers WISP
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