octave.org DNS problems (was: Another OOP issue)

[John W. Eaton]

On 24-Sep-2008, David Bateman wrote:

| PS: Sending through gmail to address@hidden consistently has DNS failures. 
| Can we dump the arsehole who poisoned the octave DNS record.

Yeah, does anyone know if this is likely to go away after some period
of time, or are we screwed until we find out which nameservers have
the bad info?  I now see that

  host -vt ns octave.org

usually returns the correct result of

  Trying "octave.org"
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60617
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2

  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;octave.org.                    IN      NS

  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  octave.org.             81204   IN      NS      dns2.cae.wisc.edu.
  octave.org.             81204   IN      NS      dns1.cae.wisc.edu.

  ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
  dns2.cae.wisc.edu.      13651   IN      A       128.104.201.24
  dns1.cae.wisc.edu.      9204    IN      A       144.92.12.24

  Received 110 bytes from 65.24.7.10#53 in 27 ms

but occasionally returns

  Trying "octave.org"
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31496
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;octave.org.                    IN      NS

  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  octave.org.             14400   IN      NS      7412619160.ourkeepset.com.
  octave.org.             14400   IN      NS      7412619162.ourkeepset.com.

  Received 92 bytes from 65.24.7.10#53 in 108 ms

instead.  the nsX.sbusiness.net nameservers are no longer appearing in
the output and earlier in the week they were consistently returning
bad results.  The only two nameservers that should be listed for the
octave.org domain are dns{1,2}.cae.wisc.edu, and they have the correct
information as far as I can tell.

jwe