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> Forwarded from a thread on a TorIX list. For many people in Toronto,
> www.yahoo.com is not working.

Several on NANOG are reporting the same, though it seems to be working for
some.

~JasonG

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On 2008-12-03, at 15:49, Jason Gurtz wrote:

>> Forwarded from a thread on a TorIX list. For many people in Toronto,
>> www.yahoo.com is not working.
>
> Several on NANOG are reporting the same, though it seems to be
> working for
> some.

Perception of brokenness might depend slightly on how recently www.yahoo.com
was cached locally, especially for those who enforce a minimum TTL.

One of the TorIX crew got through to the Yahoo! NOC who told them that
there's a known DNS issue on the "east coast". Funny, the Atlantic is
a 30 hour drive from here ;)


Joe

Multiple users here noted same thing; though the issue had resolved before I
could run any checks on the routes. Seems ok now from Central Florida.

-- corq


>
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Joe Abley <jabley at hopcount.ca> wrote:
>
>> Forwarded from a thread on a TorIX list. For many people in Toronto,
>> www.yahoo.com is not working.
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> From: Joe Abley <jabley at teksavvy.com>
>>> Date: 3 December 2008 15:38:01 GMT-05:00
>>> To: nexxia at torix.net
>>> Subject: Re: [torix/nexxia] Yahoo
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2008-12-03, at 15:34, Paul Stewart wrote:
>>>
>>> Wow? yeah, just noticed ? can't get DNS resolution to any of their sites
>>>> etc?..
>>>>
>>>
>>> It looks like a DNS problem, at least at some level.
>>>
>>> www.yahoo.com is a CNAME (for me) with RDATA www.wa1.b.yahoo.com.
>>>
>>> wa1.b.yahoo.com is delegated to yf1.yahoo.com and yf2.yahoo.com.
>>>
>>> Neither yf1.yahoo.com nor yf2.yahoo.com answer for me; my queries time
>>> out.
>>>
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
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