Did you read any of the thread?
There shouldn't be an A record, and there literally can't be a (valid)
PTR record.
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017, at 15:48, jdow wrote:
> No A or PTR record:
>
> ===8<---
> [jdow@thursday ~]$ dig updates.spamassassin.org ns1.apache.org all
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.9.4-RedHat-9.9.4-50.el7_3.1 <<>> updates.spamassassin.org
> ns1.apache.org all
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7892
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
>
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;updates.spamassassin.org. IN A
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> spamassassin.org. 3415 IN SOA ns2.pccc.com.
> pmc.spamassassin.apache.org. 2017062901 7200 3600 604800 3600
>
> ;; Query time: 0 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Jul 06 15:28:44 PDT 2017
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 125
>
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 39442
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
>
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;ns1.apache.org. IN A
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> apache.org. 1800 IN SOA ns2.surfnet.nl.
> hostmaster-2005-alpha.apache.org. 2017070600 3600 900 604800 3600
>
> ;; Query time: 321 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Jul 06 15:28:45 PDT 2017
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 115
>
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 56671
> ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
>
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;all. IN A
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> . 10740 IN SOA a.root-servers.net.
> nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2017070601 1800 900 604800 86400
>
> ;; Query time: 0 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Jul 06 15:28:45 PDT 2017
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 107
> ===8<---
>
> It looks like somebody fat fingered when updating the Apache.org NS
> records. (Or
> perhaps it was ns.pccc.com that was fscked up perhaps on June 29th.)
>
> {^_^} Joanne
>
> On 2017-07-06 11:39, RW wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 12:14:02 -0500
> > David Jones wrote:
> >
> >> On 07/06/2017 12:02 PM, Rainer Sokoll wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Am 06.07.2017 um 18:55 schrieb David Jones <djo...@ena.com>:
> >>>
> >>>> You can also run 'sa-update -vvv' to see more information on what
> >>>> it's looking for.
> >>>
> >>> Now I'm really confused: it works the way described in this thread:
> >>>
> >
> >>>
> >>
> >> That's odd. Nothing has changed in DNS for almost 2 weeks so that
> >> shouldn't have happened.
> >
> > Both DNS txt lookups worked, all the HTTP downloads failed. If the
> > script has worked in the past, and nothing has changed, it was most
> > likely just a temporary networking problem.
> >
>
