[nzlug] XTRA: DNS challenged :-)

[Dylan Reeve]

Robin Sheat wrote:
> Lesse if it's still there:
> $ host quit.ihug.co.nz
> quit.ihug.co.nz is an alias for use.exit.to.quit.nslookup.ihug.co.nz.
> use.exit.to.quit.nslookup.ihug.co.nz has address 127.0.0.1
> quit.ihug.co.nz is an alias for use.exit.to.quit.nslookup.ihug.co.nz.
> quit.ihug.co.nz is an alias for use.exit.to.quit.nslookup.ihug.co.nz.

> I bet almost noone from ihug still knows it's there. I first found it in the 
> late '90's I think.

I can't be sure but I think I may have set that up. I was one of the DNS 
admins at ihug in 97/98 (along with Simon Green, who posts here 
sometimes). We used to play with DNS for things like that often. I can't 
remember any others, but we had various CNAMEs for a bunch of things - 
common misspellings (I think stmp.ihug.co.nz and sntp.ihug.co.nz should 
resolve - having both worked on the helpdesk we knew about that problem).

Xtra is by far the most useless ISP I have ever dealt with for DNS. I've 
had to wait up to a week for them to action DNS changes for client 
(don't most ISPs give you web panels for that now?) and a domain name we 
moved away from xtra in November was (until today) still being answered 
authoritatively by Xtra's nameserver - A problem we had nearly 10 years 
ago when I was doing domains at Ihug.

I cannot believe people use them for domain names - nevermind that they 
are THE MOST expensive possible option, their service is terrible.

...bygones...

-- 
Dylan Reeve


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