Peter and all, It may be that ICANN is doing so maintanance on G & K root servers. But they are clearly offline or not reachable. This isn't a big problem however. Certainly they should be in process of implimenting DNSSEC, and perhaps that is why G & K are in this status presently. In any event, that would be the SSAC's call I believe. So perhaps if your curious enough, you might want to contact ICANN's SSAC and try to find out what the reason is. Peter Dambier wrote:

Hello,

I guess it might be a local glitch, anycast?

Root-Servers SOA records

soa(".","2008072800","a.root-servers.net","198.41.0.4"). soa(".","2008072701","b.root-servers.net","192.228.79.201"). soa(".","2008072800","c.root-servers.net","192.33.4.12"). soa(".","2008072800","d.root-servers.net","128.8.10.90"). soa(".","2008072800","e.root-servers.net","192.203.230.10"). soa(".","2008072800","f.root-servers.net","192.5.5.241"). error(".","g.root-servers.net","192.112.36.4","no response"). soa(".","2008072800","h.root-servers.net","128.63.2.53"). soa(".","2008072800","i.root-servers.net","192.36.148.17"). soa(".","2008072800","j.root-servers.net","192.58.128.30"). error(".","k.root-servers.net","193.0.14.129","no response"). soa(".","2008072800","l.root-servers.net","199.7.83.42"). soa(".","2008072800","m.root-servers.net","202.12.27.33").

Trying traceroute says

traceroute to g.root-servers.net (192.112.36.4), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 yttrium.anul.nsa (7.19.30.39) 1 ms 0 ms 0 ms 2 * * * 3 217.0.78.58 (217.0.78.58) 46 ms 45 ms 44 ms 4 62.154.15.161 (62.154.15.161) 177 ms 177 ms 178 ms 5 62.156.128.158 (62.156.128.158) 176 ms 178 ms 177 ms 6 cer-core-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.139.149) 178 ms 177 ms 178 ms 7 chi-core-01.inet.qwest.net (67.14.9.10) 178 ms 178 ms 178 ms 8 * chi-edge-08.inet.qwest.net (205.171.20.118) 177 ms * 9 216.207.8.198 (216.207.8.198) 189 ms 190 ms 188 ms 10 198.26.75.33 (198.26.75.33) 188 ms 190 ms 189 ms 11 198.26.75.42 (198.26.75.42) 188 ms 190 ms 188 ms 12 * * * 13 * * *

So routing does not know where to find "g".

traceroute to k.root-servers.net (193.0.14.129), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 yttrium.anul.nsa (7.19.30.39) 1 ms 0 ms 0 ms 2 * * * 3 217.0.78.54 (217.0.78.54) 46 ms 45 ms 45 ms 4 194.25.6.201 (194.25.6.201) 63 ms 63 ms 64 ms 5 f10.router.linx.k.ripe.net (217.79.160.94) 61 ms 62 ms 61 ms 6 k.root-servers.net (193.0.14.129) 64 ms 63 ms 63 ms

"k" has come back or has been redirected.

Kind regards Peter

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