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From: steve@cs.umd.EDU (Steven D. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Problems with Australia
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Date: 4 Jan 88 14:15:48 GMT
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   I have one real and one (possibly) imagined problem when doing queries
on things in the AU domain.  First, it was my impression that somewhere
Out There, there was a box advertising a MX record like:

	*.au.	IN	MX	10 uunet.uu.net.

   If there's no record like this, that's liveable as far as I'm concerned.
However, in poking about trying to find someone reasonable (like the person
listed in the SOA record for AU), I found a query loop.  The nameservers for
AU are supposedly ucbvax.berkeley.edu and seismo.css.gov.  If I ask ucbvax
to give me the SOA record for AU, it refers me back to the root.  The same
thing happens if I do a MX query.  If I do an ANY query, I get NOERROR,
but no answers.  I'd ask seismo, but their network seems to be unreachable
at the moment.

   I have a sneaking suspicion that either ucbvax's nameserver needs a
good swift kick, or that it's not supposed to be serving AU.  Does someone
know the real truth?

   Thanks.

	-Steve

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