Thank You Stephane, and to all others who responded. Yes, it appears other users in Ireland have problems accessing this domain name, not just me - one, who emailed me but not the list, reports:
> It looks to me like there is indeed something wrong with the setup for > covid19booster.healthservice.ie - I get differing results from > ann.indigo.ie and una.indigo.ie: > > $ mu nslook covid19booster.healthservice.ie ann.indigo.ie. > Server: ann.indigo.ie > Address: 194.125.133.10 > > *** ann.indigo.ie can't find COVID19BOOSTER.HEALTHSERVICE.IE: > Non-existent > host/domain > $ mu nslook covid19booster.healthservice.ie una.indigo.ie. > Server: una.indigo.ie > Address: 194.125.133.11 > Non-authoritative answer: > Name: hse-self-referral.swiftqueue.com > Addresses: 52.214.178.78, 52.50.21.250 > Aliases: COVID19BOOSTER.healthservice.ie > My suspicion is that some of the four topsec nameservers > have are not fully updated with the details of this domain name. > However, I cannot query them to find out. What are "RIPE Atlas Probes" ? Could I perhaps use these to improve my BIND DNS server so it can query the Google Hidden Internet too ? I have raised complaints with eir.ie about their dismal DNS service. And with the HSE.IE about putting their covid appointment booking service on a Google Hidden Internet URL - however, I do not expect anything to come of these - no web complaint form I have ever filled in has yielded a response, so I expect no difference here - in my experience, only threats of legal action (if you can get through to them) elicits a response from such organizations. But I still do not understand: o what is different about your RIPE Atlas Probes and the Google DNS servers, that they can query this domain name, but the BIND servers cannot ? o How can I avoid this problem in the future - ie. is there any extension to BIND that can query the Google Hidden Internet without accessing Google DNS servers ? o Is there any public DNS server that can query the Google DNS servers / Hidden Internet on my behalf, without my IP Address and Identity being made available to Google for financial exploitation ? Thanks & Best Regards, Jason On 08/01/2022, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzme...@nic.fr> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 04:55:24PM +0100, > Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzme...@nic.fr> wrote > a message of 52 lines which said: > >> This domain name seems OK for me but I notice that a fair number of >> RIPE Atlas probes in Ireland return a fake NXDOMAIN for this name: > > On Twitter, an Irish DNS expert said that it happened > before. Apparently, many ISP use a blacklist without thinking and this > blacklist include legitimate domain names. > _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
