Re: root nameservers broken again?

[Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah () dal net>]

Taner Halicioglu put this into my mailbox:
> bleh... is it me, or are the root nameservers hosed again?
[...]
> looks like this for [a-d].root.servers.net... e,f,g look ok (as far as
> I can tell)...

Looks hosed to me }:>

[dalvenja@delivery ~] % dig NS internic.net. @f.root-servers.net.

; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> NS internic.net. @f.root-servers.net. 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      internic.net, type = NS, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
NET.                    1D IN SOA       A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. hostmaster.internic.net. (
                                        1997071600      ; serial
                                        3H              ; refresh
                                        15M             ; retry
                                        1W              ; expiry
                                        1D )            ; minimum

[dalvenja@delivery ~] % whois internic.net
whois: whois.internic.net: host unknown
[dalvenja@delivery ~] % 

-dalvenjah

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