[outages] Is UPS.COM down

Jeremy Chadwick outages at jdc.parodius.com
Sun Sep 4 20:42:29 EDT 2011


Which DNS servers?  It looks to me like nsa.ups.com and nsb.ups.com work
fine.  I didn't care to try the AT&T and Sprint authoritative NSes.
Below is validation.

My workplace relies heavily on UPS's web-based XML API for package
status and tracking details, and none of our real-time monitoring has
alerted for DNS issues or anything else pertaining to UPS today.



$ dig @a.gtld-servers.net ns ups.com.

; <<>> DiG 9.6.-ESV-R5 <<>> @a.gtld-servers.net ns ups.com.
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22371
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 6
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ups.com.                       IN      NS

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ups.com.                172800  IN      NS      nsa.ups.com.
ups.com.                172800  IN      NS      nsb.ups.com.
ups.com.                172800  IN      NS      cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net.
ups.com.                172800  IN      NS      cmtu.mt.ns.els-gms.att.net.
ups.com.                172800  IN      NS      ns1-auth.sprintlink.net.
ups.com.                172800  IN      NS      ns2-auth.sprintlink.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
nsa.ups.com.            172800  IN      A       153.2.242.115
nsb.ups.com.            172800  IN      A       153.2.244.155
cbru.br.ns.els-gms.att.net. 172800 IN   A       199.191.128.105
cmtu.mt.ns.els-gms.att.net. 172800 IN   A       12.127.16.69
ns1-auth.sprintlink.net. 172800 IN      A       206.228.179.10
ns2-auth.sprintlink.net. 172800 IN      A       144.228.254.10

;; Query time: 104 msec
;; SERVER: 192.5.6.30#53(192.5.6.30)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep  4 17:37:37 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 276


$ dig @nsa.ups.com a www.ups.com

; <<>> DiG 9.6.-ESV-R5 <<>> @nsa.ups.com a www.ups.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16074
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 9, ADDITIONAL: 5

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.ups.com.                   IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.ups.com.            300     IN      CNAME   www.ups.com.akadns.net.
www.ups.com.akadns.net. 92      IN      CNAME   www.upsprodcidr2.com.akadns.net.
www.upsprodcidr2.com.akadns.net. 15 IN  CNAME   www2.ups.com.edgekey.net.
www2.ups.com.edgekey.net. 129   IN      CNAME   e1250.b.akamaiedge.net.
e1250.b.akamaiedge.net. 5       IN      A       96.6.165.62

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
b.akamaiedge.net.       228     IN      NS      n4b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       228     IN      NS      n6b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       228     IN      NS      n1b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       228     IN      NS      n5b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       228     IN      NS      n2b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       228     IN      NS      n8b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       228     IN      NS      n3b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       228     IN      NS      n0b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       228     IN      NS      n7b.akamaiedge.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
n2b.akamaiedge.net.     3393    IN      A       209.170.113.121
n4b.akamaiedge.net.     919     IN      A       209.170.113.83
n5b.akamaiedge.net.     217     IN      A       209.170.113.120
n7b.akamaiedge.net.     919     IN      A       209.170.113.83
n8b.akamaiedge.net.     3030    IN      A       209.170.113.83

;; Query time: 96 msec
;; SERVER: 153.2.242.115#53(153.2.242.115)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep  4 17:37:46 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 422


$ dig @nsb.ups.com a www.ups.com

; <<>> DiG 9.6.-ESV-R5 <<>> @nsb.ups.com a www.ups.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9024
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 9, ADDITIONAL: 6

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.ups.com.                   IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.ups.com.            300     IN      CNAME   www.ups.com.akadns.net.
www.ups.com.akadns.net. 277     IN      CNAME   www.upsprodcidr2.com.akadns.net.
www.upsprodcidr2.com.akadns.net. 7 IN   CNAME   www2.ups.com.edgekey.net.
www2.ups.com.edgekey.net. 346   IN      CNAME   e1250.b.akamaiedge.net.
e1250.b.akamaiedge.net. 20      IN      A       72.247.9.62

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
b.akamaiedge.net.       317     IN      NS      n3b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       317     IN      NS      n4b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       317     IN      NS      n2b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       317     IN      NS      n5b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       317     IN      NS      n1b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       317     IN      NS      n6b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       317     IN      NS      n8b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       317     IN      NS      n0b.akamaiedge.net.
b.akamaiedge.net.       317     IN      NS      n7b.akamaiedge.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
n1b.akamaiedge.net.     1534    IN      A       208.45.220.25
n2b.akamaiedge.net.     2890    IN      A       208.45.220.24
n4b.akamaiedge.net.     1077    IN      A       96.17.74.217
n5b.akamaiedge.net.     336     IN      A       96.17.74.214
n7b.akamaiedge.net.     1077    IN      A       96.17.74.217
n8b.akamaiedge.net.     792     IN      A       96.17.74.218

;; Query time: 88 msec
;; SERVER: 153.2.244.155#53(153.2.244.155)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep  4 17:37:55 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 438

-- 
| Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, US |
| Making life hard for others since 1977.               PGP 4BD6C0CB |

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 07:26:02PM -0500, Mark Kierzkowski wrote:
> Is anyone experiencing issues with ups.com site?  
> 
> Looks like dns servers are not resolving that domain.
> 

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