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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: bad .edu records from jackson state
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.061113.5520@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 91 06:11:13 GMT
References: <EMV.91Mar29232619@poe.aa.ox.com>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <EMV.91Mar29232619@poe.aa.ox.com> emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
>bad ns records for .edu are goofing up our nameservers, and it looks
>to be not unique to just us.
>
>; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> @uunet.uu.net ns edu. 
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 10
>;; flags: qr rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 1, Addit: 1
>;; QUESTIONS: 
>;;	edu, type = NS, class = IN
>
>;; ANSWERS:
>edu.	491711	NS	ADMIN.JSUMS.EDU.
>

 We had exactly the same experience with our nameserver.
 
 I was about to dump my nameserver cache to disk for examination, then kill
and restart it, but before doing so I did a second dig for edu.  And
magically the bad record had disappeared.

 Strange.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940