Network Solutions DNS is down, taking a couple million sites down with it

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by PLenz • 13 years ago

6 3 13 years ago

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Doesn't seem to be a link anywhere - but everything I know of with DNS hosted there (including my employers site and www.NetworkSolutions.com) is offline.

jasonrojas• 13 years ago

Looks fine to me:

$ dig @ns1.netsol.com www.networksolutions.com

; <<>> DiG 9.8.5-P1 <<>> @ns1.netsol.com www.networksolutions.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29113 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.networksolutions.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION: www.networksolutions.com. 300 IN A 205.178.187.13

;; AUTHORITY SECTION: networksolutions.com. 300 IN NS ns3.netsol.com. networksolutions.com. 300 IN NS ns4.netsol.com. networksolutions.com. 300 IN NS ns2.netsol.com. networksolutions.com. 300 IN NS ns1.netsol.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.netsol.com. 300 IN A 205.178.190.164 ns2.netsol.com. 300 IN A 206.188.199.44 ns3.netsol.com. 300 IN A 205.178.190.165 ns4.netsol.com. 300 IN A 206.188.199.45

;; Query time: 75 msec ;; SERVER: 205.178.190.164#53(205.178.190.164) ;; WHEN: Tue Oct 22 10:44:00 PDT 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 201

PLenz• 13 years ago

Well it's definatly not serving anything in lower Manhattan or in Atlanta (where our other office is)

aw9994• 13 years ago

My company just released internal emails warning us about the outage as well, a lot of our customers are affected. We're in the Northeast.

Network Solutions DNS is down, taking a couple million sites down with it

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