[LEDE-DEV] Lack of DNS robustness for openwrt.org

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>:

> On 07/05/18 20:34, Arjen de Korte wrote:
>> Citeren Jo-Philipp Wich <jo at mein.io>:
>>
>>> Hi Bjørn,
>>>
>>> the current timings of the DO zone are:
>>>
>>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>>> openwrt.org.        1800 IN    SOA ns1.digitalocean.com.  
>>> hostmaster.openwrt.org. (
>>>                 1525688668 ; serial
>>>                 10800      ; refresh (3 hours)
>>>                 3600       ; retry (1 hour)
>>>                 604800     ; expire (1 week)
>>>                 1800       ; minimum (30 minutes)
>>>                 )
>>
>> This all looks fine, but what slightly worries me that the  
>> nameservers listed in the Whois information for openwrt.org still  
>> mention the old ones:
>>
>>> whois openwrt.org
>>
>> Domain Name: OPENWRT.ORG
>> Registry Domain ID: D104186352-LROR
>> Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.tucows.com
>> Registrar URL: http://www.tucows.com
>> Updated Date: 2018-05-06T20:40:09Z
>> [...]
>> Name Server: ARRAKIS.DUNE.HU
>> Name Server: BELATEGEUSE.DUNE.HU
>> Name Server: SOAPSTONE.YURI.ORG.UK
>>
>> I've switched nameservers for several of my domains (including  
>> .org) and I recall this never took more than a few hours. It could  
>> be I'm impatient, but as of now, when running a trace, the above  
>> are still listed as the openwrt.org nameservers. Of course,  
>> *caches* would show stale data for up to a day, but running 'dig  
>> soa +trace openwrt.org' should resolve to the DO nameservers by now.
> Hi,
>
> nameservers were switched over to DO at 5 am CEST today. things  
> should start smoothing out shortly.

Seems to be OK now:

https://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#dnsReport|type=domain&&value=openwrt.org

Only FAIL is mail.openwrt.org, which is to be expected since that's  
hosted on the same IP as the previous primary nameserver (which  
failure started this whole cascade).

>  John
>
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