[outages] nytime.com dns borked

[Brett Frankenberger]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 03:11:58PM -0700, Curtis Doty wrote:
> Think NYT is trying to regain control back but forgot their glue. :-(
> 
> nytimes.com.            172800  IN      NS      dns.ewr1.nytimes.com.
> nytimes.com.            172800  IN      NS      dns.sea1.nytimes.com.
> ;; Received 107 bytes from 192.48.79.30#53(j.gtld-servers.net) in 121 ms
> 
> dig: couldn't get address for 'dns.ewr1.nytimes.com': not found

What server did you query?  If you're using the cached NS records for
nytimes.com, ...

 > dig @a.gtld-servers.net www.nytimes.com 

 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
 nytimes.com.            2D IN NS        dns.ewr1.nytimes.com.
 nytimes.com.            2D IN NS        dns.sea1.nytimes.com.

 ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
 dns.ewr1.nytimes.com.   2D IN A         170.149.168.134
 dns.sea1.nytimes.com.   2D IN A         170.149.173.133

But from my caching server:

 > dig NS nytimes.com    

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

 ;; ANSWER SECTION:
 nytimes.com.            76063   IN      NS  ns2.syrianelectronicarmy.com.
 nytimes.com.            76063   IN      NS  ns1.syrianelectronicarmy.com.
 

 > dig @ns1.syrianelectronicarmy.com dns.sea1.nytimes.com

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 351

     -- Brett