Problems with wikipedia [OT?]

Temlakos temlakos at gmail.com
Wed Mar 24 19:38:08 UTC 2010


On 03/24/2010 03:34 PM, Joerg Bergmann wrote:
> I use FC11 and just observed problems with name server resolution to,
> say, de.wikipedia.org (many other wikipedia addresses too). Tried 2
> different (german) locations using 2 different (german) name servers:
> [bergmann at T60 ~]$ host -a de.wikipedia.org
> Trying "de.wikipedia.org"
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33227
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;de.wikipedia.org.        IN    ANY
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> de.wikipedia.org.    331    IN    CNAME    rr.wikimedia.org.
>
> Received 61 bytes from 193.189.244.225#53 in 128 ms
> [bergmann at T60 ~]$ host rr.wikimedia.org
> Host rr.wikimedia.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> === other location ===
> [bergmann at ptpp53 ~]$ host -a de.wikipedia.org
> Trying "de.wikipedia.org"
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19010
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;de.wikipedia.org.        IN    ANY
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> de.wikipedia.org.    1802    IN    CNAME    rr.wikimedia.org.
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> wikipedia.org.        63159    IN    NS    ns2.wikimedia.org.
> wikipedia.org.        63159    IN    NS    ns0.wikimedia.org.
> wikipedia.org.        63159    IN    NS    ns1.wikimedia.org.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns0.wikimedia.org.    1540    IN    A    208.80.152.130
> ns1.wikimedia.org.    1540    IN    A    208.80.152.142
> ns2.wikimedia.org.    1540    IN    A    91.198.174.4
>
> Received 163 bytes from 141.30.66.1#53 in 1 ms
> [bergmann at T60 ~]$ ssh ptpp53.phy.tu-dresden.de
> Last login: Wed Mar 24 20:16:10 2010 from 82.113.121.37
> [bergmann at ptpp53 ~]$ host rr.wikimedia.org
> Host rr.wikimedia.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> === trying the wikimedia name server ===
> [bergmann at T60 ~]$ host de.wikipedia.org 208.80.152.130
> Using domain server:
> Name: 208.80.152.130
> Address: 208.80.152.130#53
> Aliases:
>
> de.wikipedia.org is an alias for rr.wikimedia.org.
> rr.wikimedia.org is an alias for rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org.
> rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org has address 208.80.152.2
> === entering a line into /etc/hosts ===
> 208.80.152.2    de.wikipedia.org
>
> And now I can view http://de.wikipedia.org! But others still unreachable
> (e.g http://en.wikipedia.org). What is wrong? Is there an issue with
> Fedora 11,
> with the german name servers or with wikipedia?
>
> Joerg
>
>    

The issue is with Wikipedia. I attempted to retrieve one of their images 
and got repeated "can't find server" errors. You're the first person to 
confirm to me that Wikipedia is having a hiccup.

Temlakos


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