[Dnsmon-test] Reports that A.HKIRC.NET.HK is not answering for 香港

Shane Kerr shane at time-travellers.org
Sun Jul 27 02:27:06 CEST 2014


Hello,

The following page:

https://atlas.ripe.net/dnsmon/group/%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF.

Is reporting that A.HKIRC.NET.HK is dropping >99% of queries for the
香港 domain.

However when I check the NS RRSET for the domain I don't see that
server listed:

$ host -t ns xn--j6w193g | sort
xn--j6w193g name server B.HKIRC.NET.HK.
xn--j6w193g name server C.HKIRC.NET.HK.
xn--j6w193g name server D.HKIRC.NET.HK.
xn--j6w193g name server S.HKIRC.NET.HK.
xn--j6w193g name server T.HKIRC.NET.HK.
xn--j6w193g name server U.HKIRC.NET.HK.
xn--j6w193g name server V.HKIRC.NET.HK.
xn--j6w193g name server W.HKIRC.NET.HK.
xn--j6w193g name server X.HKIRC.NET.HK.
xn--j6w193g name server Y.HKIRC.NET.HK.
xn--j6w193g name server Z.HKIRC.NET.HK.

I checked that this name server is not listed in the root zone, nor in
the zone as carried by the 香港 servers.

Cheers,

--
Shane