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--></style></head><body lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Can’t say that would surprise me, most nameservers are behind firewalls that block ICMPs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Querying their name servers looks fine however…..</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">[root@uschat ~]# dig @<a href="http://212.58.241.67">212.58.241.67</a> <a href="http://bbc.co.uk">bbc.co.uk</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.5 <<>> @<a href="http://212.58.241.67">212.58.241.67</a> <a href="http://bbc.co.uk">bbc.co.uk</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">; (1 server found)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; global options: +cmd</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; Got answer:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 449</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; QUESTION SECTION:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;<a href="http://bbc.co.uk">bbc.co.uk</a>. IN A</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; ANSWER SECTION:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://bbc.co.uk">bbc.co.uk</a>. 300 IN A 212.58.241.131</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; AUTHORITY SECTION:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://bbc.co.uk">bbc.co.uk</a>. 900 IN NS <a href="http://ns1.rbsov.bbc.co.uk">ns1.rbsov.bbc.co.uk</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://bbc.co.uk">bbc.co.uk</a>. 900 IN NS <a href="http://ns1.thdow.bbc.co.uk">ns1.thdow.bbc.co.uk</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://bbc.co.uk">bbc.co.uk</a>. 900 IN NS <a href="http://ns1.tcams.bbc.co.uk">ns1.tcams.bbc.co.uk</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://ns1.rbsov.bbc.co.uk">ns1.rbsov.bbc.co.uk</a>. 86400 IN A 212.58.241.67</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://ns1.tcams.bbc.co.uk">ns1.tcams.bbc.co.uk</a>. 86400 IN A 212.72.49.3</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://ns1.thdow.bbc.co.uk">ns1.thdow.bbc.co.uk</a>. 86400 IN A 212.58.240.163</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; Query time: 84 msec</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; SERVER: 212.58.241.67#53(212.58.241.67)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; WHEN: Tue Feb 5 06:18:09 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 163</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org">outages-bounces@outages.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org">outages-bounces@outages.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:jrk1231-outml@nym.hush.com">jrk1231-outml@nym.hush.com</a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 05 February 2013 10:44<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:outages@outages.org">outages@outages.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [outages] BBC Down?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Traceroutes to all name servers die...<br>
<br>$ traceroute 212.58.241.67<br>traceroute to 212.58.241.67 (212.58.241.67), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets<br>...<br>10 12.81.100.0 (12.81.100.0) 29.767 ms 31.279 ms 31.322 ms<br>11 12.81.105.30 (12.81.105.30) 31.843 ms 29.952 ms 32.544 ms<br>
12 12.81.56.61 (12.81.56.61) 27.129 ms 28.473 ms 30.203 ms<br>13 74.175.192.58 (74.175.192.58) 32.761 ms 29.940 ms 29.874 ms<br>14 <a href="http://cr2.rlgnc.ip.att.net">cr2.rlgnc.ip.att.net</a> (12.123.152.110) 41.231 ms 41.055 ms 40.043 ms<br>
15 <a href="http://cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net">cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net</a> (12.122.3.170) 42.459 ms 41.184 ms 43.378 ms<br>16 <a href="http://wswdc03jt.ip.att.net">wswdc03jt.ip.att.net</a> (12.122.220.245) 35.785 ms 38.096 ms 35.626 ms<br>
17 192.205.36.134 (192.205.36.134) 101.887 ms 48.829 ms<br> 192.205.34.210 (192.205.34.210) 35.991 ms<br>18 <a href="http://ash-bb3-link.telia.net">ash-bb3-link.telia.net</a> (80.91.248.158) 41.435 ms 36.061 ms 41.122 ms<br>
19 <a href="http://ldn-bb1-link.telia.net">ldn-bb1-link.telia.net</a> (80.91.246.69) 114.993 ms<br> <a href="http://ldn-bb1-link.telia.net">ldn-bb1-link.telia.net</a> (213.248.65.97) 113.689 ms<br> <a href="http://ldn-bb1-link.telia.net">ldn-bb1-link.telia.net</a> (80.91.251.206) 115.943 ms<br>
20 <a href="http://ldn-b3-link.telia.net">ldn-b3-link.telia.net</a> (213.155.133.31) 112.837 ms 114.172 ms<br> <a href="http://ldn-b3-link.telia.net">ldn-b3-link.telia.net</a> (80.91.247.86) 111.664 ms<br>21 * * *<br>
22 * * *<br>^C<br>$ traceroute 212.72.49.3<br>traceroute to 212.72.49.3 (212.72.49.3), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets<br>...<br>10 12.81.100.58 (12.81.100.58) 30.477 ms 29.052 ms 45.798 ms<br>11 12.81.104.152 (12.81.104.152) 32.031 ms 28.751 ms 31.601 ms<br>
12 12.81.56.63 (12.81.56.63) 26.293 ms 27.811 ms 30.648 ms<br>13 65.83.238.190 (65.83.238.190) 30.722 ms 30.920 ms 30.206 ms<br>14 <a href="http://cr2.rlgnc.ip.att.net">cr2.rlgnc.ip.att.net</a> (12.123.152.110) 39.762 ms 43.657 ms 39.947 ms<br>
15 <a href="http://cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net">cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net</a> (12.122.3.170) 37.799 ms 39.684 ms 40.838 ms<br>16 <a href="http://gar18.wswdc.ip.att.net">gar18.wswdc.ip.att.net</a> (12.122.113.41) 43.199 ms 40.284 ms 39.752 ms<br>
17 <a href="http://ae5.edge1.washingtondc12.level3.net">ae5.edge1.washingtondc12.level3.net</a> (4.68.62.29) 40.020 ms 38.796 ms 40.503 ms<br>18 * * *<br>19 * * *<br>^C<br>$ traceroute 212.58.240.163<br>traceroute to 212.58.240.163 (212.58.240.163), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets<br>
...<br>10 12.81.100.38 (12.81.100.38) 58.623 ms 26.734 ms 32.727 ms<br>11 12.81.104.112 (12.81.104.112) 30.606 ms 30.302 ms 32.276 ms<br>12 12.81.56.65 (12.81.56.65) 26.646 ms 29.687 ms 29.005 ms<br>13 74.175.192.54 (74.175.192.54) 25.976 ms 30.333 ms 29.881 ms<br>
14 <a href="http://cr2.rlgnc.ip.att.net">cr2.rlgnc.ip.att.net</a> (12.123.152.110) 43.871 ms 39.932 ms 39.364 ms<br>15 <a href="http://cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net">cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net</a> (12.122.3.170) 40.431 ms 39.769 ms 39.126 ms<br>
16 <a href="http://wswdc03jt.ip.att.net">wswdc03jt.ip.att.net</a> (12.122.220.245) 38.322 ms 40.228 ms 35.487 ms<br>17 192.205.36.134 (192.205.36.134) 36.063 ms 38.332 ms<br> 192.205.34.210 (192.205.34.210) 113.954 ms<br>
18 <a href="http://ash-bb4-link.telia.net">ash-bb4-link.telia.net</a> (213.155.130.72) 40.171 ms<br> <a href="http://ash-bb4-link.telia.net">ash-bb4-link.telia.net</a> (213.155.130.2) 38.727 ms<br> <a href="http://ash-bb4-link.telia.net">ash-bb4-link.telia.net</a> (213.155.130.72) 39.493 ms<br>
19 <a href="http://ldn-bb2-link.telia.net">ldn-bb2-link.telia.net</a> (80.91.251.208) 115.411 ms 114.196 ms 116.435 ms<br>20 <a href="http://ldn-b3-link.telia.net">ldn-b3-link.telia.net</a> (80.91.247.88) 116.375 ms<br>
<a href="http://ldn-b3-link.telia.net">ldn-b3-link.telia.net</a> (213.155.133.33) 146.757 ms<br> <a href="http://ldn-b3-link.telia.net">ldn-b3-link.telia.net</a> (80.91.247.88) 157.562 ms<br>21 * * *<br>22 * * *<br>
^C<br><br><br>--<br>Jon R. Kibler<br>+001-843-813-2924<br><br>On 02/05/2013 at 5:38 AM, <a href="mailto:jrk1231-outml@nym.hush.com">jrk1231-outml@nym.hush.com</a> wrote:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">None of the name servers are reachable.<br>
<br>$ host <a href="http://bbc.co.uk">bbc.co.uk</a><br>;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached<br><br>Tried from a couple different locations. Same result.<br><br>Jon<br>--<br>Jon R. Kibler<br>+001-843-813-2924</span></p>
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