[outages] Mediacom DNS server issue?

[staticsafe]

On 1/31/2013 18:38, Frank Bulk wrote:
> I was first alerted by our email server because there was no DNS resolution
> for mchsi.com.
> 
> Every indication from my testing is that Mediacom's two DNS servers:
> 	NS1.MCOMDC.COM 74.84.103.134 
> 	NS2.MCOMDC.COM 74.84.119.134
> are down.
> 
> I can't query anything about mchsi.com or mediacomcable.com, but
> www.mediacomcc.com, which uses different nameservers, resolved just fine.
> 
> Frank

Seems like NS2 is down.

root at hellhound:~# dig +short MX mchsi.com @ns1.mcomdc.com
10 smtp.mchsi.com.

root at hellhound:~# dig +short MX mchsi.com @ns2.mcomdc.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Additionally, NS1 is responding to ICMP pings while NS2 isn't.
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