[outages] Network Solutions DNS Stuffed?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 09:31:33AM -0400, Mike Phipps wrote:
> Hello all, has anyone else noticed that some of the Network Solutions name
> servers are unresponsive? Take this for example:
> 
> AMERIGON.COM has name server entries NS9.WORLDNIC.COM and
> NS10.WORLDNIC.COM...
> 
> $ dig @ns9.worldnic.com amerigon.com
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @ns9.worldnic.com amerigon.com
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> 
> $ dig @ns10.worldnic.com amerigon.com
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @ns10.worldnic.com amerigon.com
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Can confirm this from my Comcast residential connection in Mountain
View, CA.  Other types of queries (NS, SOA, etc.) result in the same
behaviour.

Also just for the record:

ns9.worldnic.com has address 205.178.190.5
ns10.worldnic.com has address 206.188.198.5

traceroutes/mtrs to these destinations stop presumably at a border
router -- this will vary based on source location, but for me trying to
reach ns9 stops at hr1-tengig-2-0-0.sterling2dc2.savvis.net, ns10 stops
at ae-1-51.edge4.Atlanta2.Level3.net.  So possibilities include issues
with NetSol, or return path issues (which I obviously cannot confirm).

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