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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>The few I checked worked, just took a few seconds to respond.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Outages [mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Cary Wiedemann<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 22, 2013 12:06 PM<br><b>To:</b> outages@outages.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [outages] Network Solutions NSXX.WORLDNIC.COM DNS servers slow or don't respond<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Good afternoon Outages,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Anyone else seeing massive DNS issues this morning, particularly with Network Solutions' "hosted zone" servers?<br><br>langsam:~# whois <a href="http://carywiedemann.com">carywiedemann.com</a> | grep "Domain servers" -A 3<br> Domain servers in listed order:<br><br> <a href="http://NS43.WORLDNIC.COM">NS43.WORLDNIC.COM</a> 205.178.190.22<br> <a href="http://NS44.WORLDNIC.COM">NS44.WORLDNIC.COM</a> 206.188.198.22<br><br>langsam:~# host <a href="http://carywiedemann.com">carywiedemann.com</a> 206.188.198.22<br>;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Seems to be affecting far more than just my personal domain:<br><br>langsam:~# whois <a href="http://blueridgenetworks.com">blueridgenetworks.com</a> | grep -A 3 "Domain servers"<br> Domain servers in listed order:<br><br> <a href="http://NS23.WORLDNIC.COM">NS23.WORLDNIC.COM</a> 205.178.190.12<br> <a href="http://NS24.WORLDNIC.COM">NS24.WORLDNIC.COM</a> 206.188.198.12<br><br>langsam:~# host <a href="http://blueridgenetworks.com">blueridgenetworks.com</a> 206.188.198.12<br>;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached<br><br>langsam:~# whois <a href="http://blueridge.com">blueridge.com</a> | grep -A 3 "Domain servers"<br> Domain servers in listed order:<br><br> <a href="http://NS33.WORLDNIC.COM">NS33.WORLDNIC.COM</a> 205.178.190.17<br> <a href="http://NS34.WORLDNIC.COM">NS34.WORLDNIC.COM</a> 206.188.198.17<br><br>langsam:~# host <a href="http://blueridge.com">blueridge.com</a> 206.188.198.17<br>;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I don't believe any of these <a href="http://NSXX.WORLDNIC.COM">NSXX.WORLDNIC.COM</a> servers are anycasted... is anyone else having trouble?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Not a peep out of their Twitter feed.<br><br>Thanks everyone.<br><br>- Cary Wiedemann<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>