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Is anyone else troubleshooting some Alaska domains the past two days?
ACS related?

C:\Documents and Settings\Joseph>ping dowlandbach.com

Pinging dowlandbach.com [209.112.129.41] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 209.112.129.41: bytes=32 time=233ms TTL=45
Reply from 209.112.129.41: bytes=32 time=235ms TTL=45
Reply from 209.112.129.41: bytes=32 time=300ms TTL=45
Reply from 209.112.129.41: bytes=32 time=252ms TTL=45

Ping statistics for 209.112.129.41:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 233ms, Maximum = 300ms, Average = 255ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Joseph>ping edc-alaska.com
Ping request could not find host edc-alaska.com. Please check the name and tr
y a
gain.

  So there are no address records. There doesn't have to be.
  If you think there is a problem contact dnsadmin@acsalaska.net

  P.S. using a tool that is designed to display the results of
  a DNS query is usually much better than using ping for DNS
  trouble shooting.

  Mark

; <<>> DiG 9.3.5-P2 <<>> any edc-alaska.com @ns4-auth.alaska.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59826
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 6

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;edc-alaska.com. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
edc-alaska.com. 43200 IN SOA ns0.acsalaska.net. dnsadmin.acsalaska.net. 2008102400 28800 3600 1209600 43200
edc-alaska.com. 43200 IN NS ns1.acsalaska.net.
edc-alaska.com. 43200 IN NS ns4.acsalaska.net.
edc-alaska.com. 43200 IN NS ns3.acsalaska.net.
edc-alaska.com. 43200 IN NS ns2.acsalaska.net.
edc-alaska.com. 43200 IN MX 10 mail.edc-alaska.com.
edc-alaska.com. 43200 IN MX 20 etrn.acsalaska.net.
edc-alaska.com. 43200 IN TXT "$Id: edc-alaska.com.db,v 1.17 2007/07/21 00:01:02 kohfield Exp $"

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.acsalaska.net. 43200 IN A 204.17.139.1
ns2.acsalaska.net. 43200 IN A 209.112.128.1
ns3.acsalaska.net. 43200 IN A 216.67.0.1
ns4.acsalaska.net. 43200 IN A 209.193.0.1
mail.edc-alaska.com. 43200 IN A 209.112.170.23
etrn.acsalaska.net. 43200 IN A 209.112.173.228

;; Query time: 218 msec
;; SERVER: 209.193.0.1#53(209.193.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Oct 25 09:38:55 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 381

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Thanks for everyone's help on and offlist.

acsalaska.net told me just before I left the office 4 hours ago they
have corrected the issues and time to clear cache.

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JoeSox wrote:

Thanks for everyone's help on and offlist.

acsalaska.net told me just before I left the office 4 hours ago they
have corrected the issues and time to clear cache.

Why was it an issue that they had no A records for the domain name ?

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Eugeniu Patrascu wrote:

Why was it an issue that they had no A records for the domain name ?

That question has intrigued me for years. I used to manage a network
where were lots of labels in domain names e.g. a.b.c.example.com where
only the machine "a" had addresses (the others may or may not have been
associated with machines and hence IP addresses but not necessarily A RRs).