Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!revell From: revell@uunet.UU.NET (James R Revell Jr) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: what happened to uunet.uu.net? Summary: invalid class B address for uunet Message-ID: <114810@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 19 Dec 90 02:17:17 GMT References: <1990Dec17.025015.24602@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> <1280001@hpcc01.HP.COM> Reply-To: revell@uunet.uu.net (James R Revell Jr) Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 19 In article <1280001@hpcc01.HP.COM> cricket@hpcc01.HP.COM (Cricket Liu) writes: } } i can't seem to ping uunet.uu.net through the internet anymore. } } I've seen two floating around for some time - their class C (192.48.96.2) } and a class B (137.39.1.2) that seems to be on AlterNet. ping only tries } the first address it gets, which on my host is the class B. I can't reach } it, I suspect because it's on AlterNet and I'm not. There is an invalid A RR (137.39.1.2) floating around for uunet.uu.net. We listed it for a very short time late last winter and although we stopped listing it, a number of other folks configured it into their servers. Other name servers keeps infecting ours with the bad RR (a BIND feature ;-) and we've never been able to get all the copies removed. The problem should disappear very shortly when we install a second ethernet board and both addresses are actually valid. -- James Revell senior uunet postmaster /8^{~