I thought I'd sent this a couple of hours ago
APNIC are aware of the problem and
things have partially recovered though the arin and ripe
name-servers still SERVFAIL
the second run of our delegation-checking script this morning
started complaining about our 203.in-addr zones and it seems
there is an issue with apnic.net
the delegation shows 4 entries spread across 3 domains which
is good, albeit all are under the same registry.
Sometimes cumin.apnic.net and innie.apnic.net. are not
reachable, or give a REFUSED response, or give a response
with no A records nor any additional section.
Unfortunately both tinnie.arin.net and ns-sec.ripe.net
return SERVFAIL, as if they had not been able to perform
a zone transfer for a while (assuming AXFR is the replication
mechanism).
I don't have ipv6 connectivity, but that's not likely to help.
I don't think this will significantly impact reverse dns
lookups as I think the dns is spread across other RIR's
seems there was a different type of issue in May
http://www.bauani.org/thinkings/2008/05/issue-with-apnic-dns-nameservers.html
Danny Thomas
# dig @I.GTLD-SERVERS.net apnic.net +norec
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @I.GTLD-SERVERS.net apnic.net +norec
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5460
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 5
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;apnic.net. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
apnic.net. 172800 IN NS cumin.apnic.net.
apnic.net. 172800 IN NS ns-sec.ripe.net.
apnic.net. 172800 IN NS tinnie.apnic.net.
apnic.net. 172800 IN NS tinnie.arin.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
cumin.apnic.net. 172800 IN A 202.12.29.59
ns-sec.ripe.net. 172800 IN A 193.0.0.196
ns-sec.ripe.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:610:240:0:53::4
tinnie.apnic.net. 172800 IN A 202.12.29.60
tinnie.arin.net. 172800 IN A 168.143.101.18
dig @202.12.29.59 apnic.net any +norec
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @202.12.29.59 apnic.net any +norec
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 33930
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
# dig @202.12.29.59 apnic.net any
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @202.12.29.59 apnic.net any
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40744
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;apnic.net. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
apnic.net. 3600 IN SOA cumin.apnic.net. dns-admin.apnic.net. 2008062101 3600 1800 604800 3600
apnic.net. 3600 IN NS cumin.apnic.net.
apnic.net. 3600 IN NS ns-sec.ripe.net.
apnic.net. 3600 IN NS tinnie.arin.net.
apnic.net. 3600 IN NS tinnie.apnic.net.
apnic.net. 3600 IN MX 10 kombu.apnic.net.
apnic.net. 3600 IN MX 25 karashi.apnic.net.
apnic.net. 3600 IN MX 35 fennel.apnic.net.
;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 202.12.29.59#53(202.12.29.59)
;; WHEN: Tue Jun 24 10:35:13 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 235
dig @193.0.0.196 apnic.net any +norec
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @193.0.0.196 apnic.net any +norec
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 37668
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;apnic.net. IN ANY
# dig @168.143.101.18 apnic.net ns
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> @168.143.101.18 apnic.net ns
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 41014
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;apnic.net. IN NS