[Madwifi-devel] HEADS UP: DNS-servers down

[Michael R. <mre...@ma...>]

Hi all.

Ticket #1994 [1] reports about problems with resolving anything that's in
the madwifi.org zone. The cause for this issue is obviously another outage
of the authoritative DNS servers.

I've already informed the admin of said nameservers about the issue, and
will try to also call him by phone later (it's only 6:30am there
currently). However, depending on whether I'm successful to catch him and
how fast he can resolve the root cause, chances are that over time more
and more of our users will be affected by this issue.

As a workaround, you could add the following entries to /etc/hosts:

=== cut ===
217.24.1.134  madwifi.org
217.24.1.134  snapshots.madwifi.org
217.24.1.134  svn.madwifi.org
217.24.1.135  lists.madwifi.org
=== cut ===

(Yes, lists.madwifi.org has a different IP, this is no typo)

I will keep you posted. Thanks for your patience.

Bye, Mike


PS: Yes, we've been through this several times already. Since the last
outage we have a third nameserver in place. However, unfortunately that
nameserver has not yet been added as authoritative nameserver for the
madwifi.org zonefile. I will explain that in a separate thread on
madwifi-devel later.

[1] http://madwifi.org/ticket/1994