DNS Exit using ::1

[Mark Smith]

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:19:23 -0700
Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:

> I recently ran across this gem while trying to troubleshoot a domain for
> a customer:
> 
> ns1.dnsexit.com.        28800   IN      A       69.57.160.118
> ns1.dnsexit.com.        28800   IN      AAAA    ::1
> ns2.dnsexit.com.        59400   IN      A       64.182.102.188
> ns2.dnsexit.com.        59400   IN      AAAA    ::1
> ns3.dnsexit.com.        57600   IN      A       67.214.175.73
> ns3.dnsexit.com.        57600   IN      AAAA    ::1
> ns4.dnsexit.com.        57600   IN      A       67.214.161.154
> ns4.dnsexit.com.        57600   IN      AAAA    ::1
> 
> I was trying to figure out why dig kept saying no servers were reachable
> until I tried from a IPv4 only site and saw the above. So far it just
> seems like a nice way to intentionally break things.
> 

From their webpage -

"Our DNS still keeps 100% uptime history since we started in 1998."

Not any more ... their DNS servers a ::1 don't work :-)



> ~Seth