Re: FORMERR for wikipedia...

2011-03-17 Thread Jay Ford
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Mark Bergsma wrote: On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:48 AM, Jay Ford wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Mark Andrews wrote: The nameservers for wikipedia.org are broken. They put the wrong SOA record in the negative response, wikipedia.org != wikimedia.org. The adminstrators of wikimedi

Re: FORMERR for wikipedia...

2011-03-17 Thread Jay Ford
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Mark Andrews wrote: The nameservers for wikipedia.org are broken. They put the wrong SOA record in the negative response, wikipedia.org != wikimedia.org. M vs P Exactly. The adminstrators of wikimedia.org were informed about this months ago but they don'

Re: FORMERR for wikipedia...

2011-03-17 Thread Chris Thompson
On Mar 16 2011, Jay Ford wrote: [...] To me it looks like BIND is doing the right thing (as usual ;^), Yes (or *a* right thing, anyway). but the wikipedia... servers are returning bogus responses. Yes. Specifically the response is neither a valid "nodata" response, nor a valid referral. Di

Re: FORMERR for wikipedia...

2011-03-16 Thread Mark Andrews
The nameservers for wikipedia.org are broken. They put the wrong SOA record in the negative response, wikipedia.org != wikimedia.org. M vs P wikipedia.org. 86400 IN NS ns0.wikimedia.org. wikipedia.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.wikimedia.org. wiki

FORMERR for wikipedia...

2011-03-16 Thread Jay Ford
A recursive resolver of mine running BIND 9.7.3 logs many messages like: resolver: DNS format error from 208.80.152.130#53 resolving \ en.wikipedia.org/ for client ::1#33887: invalid response lame-servers: error (FORMERR) resolving 'en.wikipedia.org//IN': \ 208.80.152.130#