William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> writes: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Romeo Zwart <rz+...@zwart.com> wrote: >> RIPE NCC have issued a statement about the issue here: >> >> https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/2017-March/003394.html >> >> Our apologies for the inconvenience caused. > > Hmm. That sounds like an ARIN-side bug too. ARIN's code responded to > corrupted data by zeroing out the data instead of using the last known good > data. That's awfully brittle for such a critical service.
Well, it was a nice smoke test of the "RDNS required" anti-feature. All of a sudden we couldn't even send email to ourselves, having smarthosts in one of the affected zones. Nice. Maybe time to re-evaluate the usefulness of that config... Bjørn
