[Steam-engine] System Outage - kinda

[harryfrye at comcast.net]

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about but I trust that you will clear it up in the near future.  Let me thank you for running such a wonderful service to the steam community.  There is not another comparable service anywhere else on the net and I appreciate your efforts.

Thanks alot

Harry Frye


> To all the folks that use ATIS
> 
> There is a problem with one (or more) of the root servers in the DNS system
> that is creating some problems that is affecting ATIS.   One of the root
> servers is continuing to cache old information and is not reporting "glue"
> records and still has my OLD secondary name server in its cache.   This
> information was changed Friday so I am not sure why this is still happening
> since the TTL for this information was only 3 days.  Unfortunately, no one
> at ISC (Keepers of BIND) can explain it nor is there a remedy.  All I have
> gotten from them is something like:
> 
> I am very confused...This output for ATIS leads me to believe that there
> are missing glue records
> at the parent.  But when I issue successive "dig" commands, I find the
> glue.    I have been seeing this for a few weeks though.
> 
> Not comforting words from experts.  In a nutshell what is happening is most
> servers return the correct information (B.GTLD-SERVERS for instance) but
> some of them (I haven't tested all of them) return the IP address of my old
> secondary nameserver.  Specifically G.GTLD-SERVERS.net is a big culprit.
> 
> Anyways, there is nothing I can do about it.   If your ISP happens to get
> G.GTLD-SERVERS or one of the others with an outdated cache when your ISP's
> name servers reissues a query for ATIS, you will not be able to access ATIS
> for about 1 day.   Sorry about this, but there is nothing I can do.
> Eventually all of these servers have to have the DNS information reloaded
> so I feel comfortable this inconvienence will not last too many more days.
> 
> For more information on DNS and to test and prove what I am saying, visit:
> 
> http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnstime.ch?name=atis.net&type=A
> 
> Just keep hitting refresh until G.GTLD-SERVERS.net reports
> ns2-auth.sprintlink.net instead of heavyiron.atis.net or one of my
> secondaries at biz.rr.com    ns2-auth.sprintlink.net is one of three old
> secondaries I use to have and ns2-auth had old information cached.
> 
> Sorry for any inconvienence but this should be resolved with a day or two
> on its own I would expect,
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Spencer Yost
> 
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