[Dovecot] www.dovecot.org misconfigured?

[John Peacock]

Jakob Curdes wrote:
> The problem is not resolved yet. dovecot.org may resolve for some people 
> where nameservers have valid entries in their cache but the primaries 
> are still inaccessible.

It looks like Timo is aware of the problem (and is changing things), but 
it may be a while (24-48 hours) before it is all sorted out.  The .org 
TLD servers have different NS records than yesterday:

> $ dnstracer -4oq ns -s . dovecot.org
> Tracing to dovecot.org[ns] via A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, maximum of 3 retries
> A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET [.] (198.41.0.4)
>  |\___ TLD6.ULTRADNS.CO.UK [org] (198.133.199.11)
>  |     |\___ ns.dovecot.org [dovecot.org] (80.64.10.60)
>  |      \___ ns.ytti.net [dovecot.org] (62.236.255.178) Got authoritative answer

<snip>

> ns.ytti.net (62.236.255.178)            dovecot.org -> ns.procontrol.fi
> ns.ytti.net (62.236.255.178)            dovecot.org -> ns2.procontrol.fi
> ns.ytti.net (62.236.255.178)            dovecot.org -> dovecot.org

Although ns.ytti.net is authoritative for the domain, it is reporting 
the wrong NS records (the procontrol.fi servers are not resolving at 
all) and ns.dovecot.org is not authoritative at all (hence it returns no 
records).

If that wasn't enough, the .org TLD servers disagree as to what the 
correct address for ns.dovecot.org should be:

> $ dnstracer -4oq a -s . ns.dovecot.org
> Tracing to ns.dovecot.org[a] via A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET, maximum of 3 retries
> A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET [.] (198.41.0.4)
>  |\___ TLD6.ULTRADNS.CO.UK [org] (198.133.199.11) Got answer
>  |     |\___ ns.dovecot.org [dovecot.org] (80.64.10.60)
>  |      \___ ns.ytti.net [dovecot.org] (62.236.255.178) Got authoritative answer

<snip>

> TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET (204.74.112.1)        ns.dovecot.org -> 80.64.10.60
> TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET (204.74.113.1)        ns.dovecot.org -> 80.64.10.60
> TLD3.ULTRADNS.org (199.7.66.1)          ns.dovecot.org -> 80.64.10.60
> TLD4.ULTRADNS.org (199.7.67.1)          ns.dovecot.org -> 80.64.10.60
> TLD5.ULTRADNS.INFO (192.100.59.11)      ns.dovecot.org -> 80.64.10.60
> ns.ytti.net (62.236.255.178)            ns.dovecot.org -> 213.157.71.38
> TLD6.ULTRADNS.CO.UK (198.133.199.11)    ns.dovecot.org -> 80.64.10.60

Depending on which DNS resolver you are using, you may or may not be 
able to hit the web site or send e-mail to the list or check out CVS.

John

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