Joe and all, Yes indeed the US Military like the Canadian military complex often gets attacks routed through the IANA. Frankly this is or has been concerning. I for one am glad to see that as you indicated that the US Military establishment has finnaly taken the wise and necessary course of action and filtered out the IANA mess. Joe Baptista wrote:

I got the same thing on my end this morning. But it has since been fixed. There indeed is an issue at 198.26.75.42 - which is the department of defense - usa - but it might just be some filtering is being done to ward off an attack. DoD gets a lot of cyber attacks on a daily basis so it looks like 198.26.75.42 is filtering out icmp at the iana g.root.

regards joe baptista

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Peter Dambier <peter@pccf.net> 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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