Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:57:07 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Rick Knospler <rick@skylands.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp.perl.org strangeness Message-ID: <20040316075707.GA94874@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20040315214718.021b0478@pop3.skylands.net> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20040315214718.021b0478@pop3.skylands.net>
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:27:50PM -0500, Rick Knospler wrote: > I am getting an error message > > [rick@cherry ~]: ftp ftp.perl.org > ftp: ftp.perl.org: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution > ftp> Just to elaborate on what Mark said... The nameserver for ftp.perl.com has a problem when asked for any records other than A (ie. an IPv4 address). When asked for any other type of record, it returns NXDOMAIN, and this means "ftp.perl.com" does not exist. It should return "0 records of this type". I've a cgi script for diagnosing these sort of problems at: http://www.cnri.dit.ie/cgi-bin/check_aaaa.pl?dom=ftp.perl.org You should probably mail ask@develooper.com and domains@develooper.com and let them know you have had a problem and ask when they will be able to fix their DNS load balancer. David.
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