Re: odbc.ucas.com lookup problem

2010-07-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Chris Tho mpson writes: > We're having some local reports about delays resolving odbc.ucas.com. > The problem is undoubtedly the response of "ns-lp.ucas.com", which > seems to be some sort of load balancer, to queries. I get log > entries from BIND like > > Jul 20 14:35:12 koala

Re: odbc.ucas.com lookup problem

2010-07-20 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 7/20/2010 1:41 PM, Tony Finch wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Kevin Darcy wrote: It seems that UCAS is just proxying non-A queries from its load-balancers back to its regular nameservers. No, the load balancers are simply braindamaged. Try SOA or NS or TXT queries and you get a timeout

Re: odbc.ucas.com lookup problem

2010-07-20 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Kevin Darcy wrote: > > It seems that UCAS is just proxying non-A queries from its load-balancers back > to its regular nameservers. No, the load balancers are simply braindamaged. Try SOA or NS or TXT queries and you get a timeout. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finchhttp://dotat.

Re: odbc.ucas.com lookup problem

2010-07-20 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Chris Thompson wrote: > > However, I haven't yet been able to work out exactly *what* is wrong > with the response, as demonstrated by dig (say). Any ideas? Got it. The nameservers for ucas.com give a referral for odbc.ucas.com. That means the zone for odbc.ucas.com is odbc.uc

Re: odbc.ucas.com lookup problem

2010-07-20 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 7/20/2010 11:15 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: On 20/07/10 15:10, Chris Thompson wrote: We're having some local reports about delays resolving odbc.ucas.com. The problem is undoubtedly the response of "ns-lp.ucas.com", which seems to be some sort of load balancer, to queries. I get log entries f

Re: odbc.ucas.com lookup problem

2010-07-20 Thread Sten Carlsen
No problems here. It does look a bit odd that the timeout is 0 actually on all accesses it is 0 ~ silver3:~ carlsen$ dig odbc.ucas.com ; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> odbc.ucas.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id:

Re: odbc.ucas.com lookup problem

2010-07-20 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Chris Thompson wrote: > > However, I haven't yet been able to work out exactly *what* is wrong > with the response, as demonstrated by dig (say). Any ideas? Could it be complaining about the lack of compression? Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finchhttp://dotat.at/ NORTH UTSIRE SOU

Re: odbc.ucas.com lookup problem

2010-07-20 Thread Phil Mayers
On 20/07/10 15:10, Chris Thompson wrote: We're having some local reports about delays resolving odbc.ucas.com. The problem is undoubtedly the response of "ns-lp.ucas.com", which seems to be some sort of load balancer, to queries. I get log entries from BIND like Jul 20 14:35:12 koala.csi.ca

odbc.ucas.com lookup problem

2010-07-20 Thread Chris Thompson
We're having some local reports about delays resolving odbc.ucas.com. The problem is undoubtedly the response of "ns-lp.ucas.com", which seems to be some sort of load balancer, to queries. I get log entries from BIND like Jul 20 14:35:12 koala.csi.cam.ac.uk named[4539]: [ID 873579 daemon.not