[outages] Outage ns1-ns5.he.net, clientHold in WHOIS for he.net

[Jay Ashworth]

I have a report that the CEO of Hurricane Electric is working on this as of 1512EDT.

I approve of the scale of this response. :-)

Cheers,
-- jra

On July 4, 2024 2:40:59 PM EDT, Jay Ashworth via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
>Hopefully somebody who actually works at Hurricane Electric will chime in fairly promptly, and let us restrain comment on this list to that actual thread. 
>
>Any further commentary that does not involve an he employee should move over to -discuss.
>
>On July 4, 2024 2:34:59 PM EDT, "Michael B. Williams via Outages" <outages at outages.org> wrote:
>>I’m seeing the same issues.
>>
>>For those who don’t know the clientHold status code tells a domain's
>>registry to not activate a domain in the DNS and as a consequence, it will
>>not resolve. It is an uncommon status that is usually enacted during legal
>>disputes, non-payment, or when a domain is subject to deletion.
>>Given the expiry of this domain is 2033 something else is going on… anyone
>>have a contact at HE who could shead some light on this situation?
>>
>>Sent from Gmail Mobile
>>
>>
>>On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 04:28 Tom Hek via Outages <outages at outages.org>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Outages,
>>>
>>> Seeing a bunch of resolution failures on our resolvers, after diagnosis I
>>> tracked it down to HE.net being in clientHold:
>>>
>>>    Domain Name: HE.NET
>>>    Registry Domain ID: 486609_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
>>>    Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com
>>>    Registrar URL: http://networksolutions.com
>>>    Updated Date: 2024-07-04T15:06:46Z
>>>    Creation Date: 1995-07-31T04:00:00Z
>>>    Registry Expiry Date: 2033-07-30T04:00:00Z
>>>    Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC
>>>    Registrar IANA ID: 2
>>>    Registrar Abuse Contact Email: domain.operations at web.com
>>>    Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8777228662
>>>    Domain Status: clientHold https://icann.org/epp#clientHold
>>>    Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
>>> https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
>>>    Name Server: NS1.HE.NET
>>>    Name Server: NS2.HE.NET
>>>    Name Server: NS3.HE.NET
>>>    Name Server: NS4.HE.NET
>>>    Name Server: NS5.HE.NET
>>>    DNSSEC: unsigned
>>>    URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form:
>>> https://www.icann.org/wicf/
>>> >>> Last update of whois database: 2024-07-04T18:19:09Z <<<
>>>
>>> ns1-5.he.net stopped resolving due to this as HE.net disappeared from the
>>> .net zone, so all domains that use them as a authoritative DNS might stop
>>> resolving soon as well.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Tom Hek
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