On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Glynn Clements wrote: > > Arshad Mahmood wrote: > > > My DNS can not resolve the following domain > > passport.com > > It looks like Microsoft has misconfigured it again[1]. DNS says that > hotmail.passport.com is served by ns1.hotmail.com and ns3.hotmail.com, > but querying these servers directly reveals that ns1 isn't claiming > authority whilst ns3 is. > If we run nslookup then for passport.com > set q=ns > passport.com Server: ns1-isb.sdnpk.org Address: 203.135.2.55 Non-authoritative answer: passport.com nameserver = DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET passport.com nameserver = DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET Authoritative answers can be found from: DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET internet address = 207.46.138.11 DNS5.CP.MSFT.NET internet address = 207.46.138.12 When I traceroute to DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET then 12 194.ATM4-0.GW3.SEA1.ALTER.NET (146.188.201.29) 348.981 ms * 347.277 ms 13 157.130.177.154 (157.130.177.154) 389.490 ms * * 14 207.46.129.14 (207.46.129.14) 397.272 ms * * 15 * * * 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 * * * or > server DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET Default Server: DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET Address: 207.46.138.11 > lc1.law5.hotmail.passport.com Server: DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET Address: 207.46.138.11 *** DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET can't find lc1.law5.hotmail.passport.com: No response from server The above results show that DNS4.CP.MSFT.NET is down. And when we type http://www.hotmail.com The Netscape shows Connect: Looking up host: lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com After some time netscape gives error Netscape is unable to locate the server lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com Please check the server name and try again. Any hints or any other facing this problem. Regards, Arshad Mahmood. > I can't think of any workaround from your end. > > -- > Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk> > > [1] IIRC, the passport.com domain was down sometime around new year > after MS forgot to pay the maintainance fee. > > -- > Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk> > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
