Hi,John McCormac  wrote:
> Last week, when indexing stuff for WhoisIreland.com, I noticed that
> ns0.domainregistry.ie and banba.domainregistry.ie were out of synch by
> a few days. The other nameservers seemed to give a current SOA at that
> time. However the affected secondaries may have been using
> ns0.domainregistry.ie for axfr and propagated the error.I don't know what role ns0 plays in relation to the IE zone. It's
certainly not involved in the regular resolution process. It may
be involved in zone distribution as you suggest. IIRC (and I often
don't) on Friday ns0 had a serial that none of the IE nameservers 
shared. Unfortunately I don't have a record of that.> This whole thing does seriously bring into question IEDR's decision to
> outsource the technical admininstration of .ie to a company that
> apparently does not even admin its own DNS. It is a nice story though -
> almost as good as the time that .ie disappeared for 8 hours in July
> 1998.... and only you noticed :)
[ Messages on the IEDR-FORUM list at the time don't support 
  your assertion ]As an aside, shortly after my note on Friday uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com and
uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com stopped responding to DNS requests. So IE had
two dead nameservers, four stuck a week in the past and three
working correctly. Marvellous.
ATB,
james
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