Dear colleagues, I'm surprised to find that the top level domain names CY and GR (for Greece and Cyprus) have been dropped from the most recent root zone (Serial 930927 as available by FTP from rs.InterNIC.net). While all of the master servers for those TLDs - with the exception of NS.EU.NET - seem still to carry those two zones, root server NS.INTERNIC.NET does not delegate CY and GR anymore (see logs from checking with dig and host below). Checking the InterNIC whois shows that the TLD entries have been changed yesterday; probably that update sunk CY and GR as collateral damage:-) Please correct the root zone immediately and take action to have the broken zone replaced on all "infected" root servers. As of the time of sending this message serial 930927 had found it's way to NS.INTERNIC.NET, C.NYSER.NET, TERP.UMD.EDU, NS.NASA.GOV, and NS.NIC.DDN.MIL (AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL still has 930924, NIC.NORDU.NET is still at 930922, and KAVA.NISC.SRI.COM is not responding). Regards, Ruediger Ruediger Volk Universitaet Dortmund, Informatik IRB DE-NIC D-44221 Dortmund, Germany E-Mail: rv@Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE Phone: +49 231 755 4760 Fax: +49 231 755 2386 ================================================================================ Cyprus (Republic of) top-level domain (CY-DOM) University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos str Nicosia CYPRUS Domain Name: CY Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Stylianou, Agathoclis (AS183) agatho@CYEARN.BITNET +02 366186 Record last updated on 27-Sep-93. Domain servers in listed order: JUPITER.CCA.UCY.CY 193.92.92.33 NICOSIA.CCS.UCY.CY 193.92.92.65 PYTHIA.ICS.FORTH.GR 139.91.1.1 NS.EU.NET 192.16.202.11 SUNIC.SUNET.SE 192.36.125.2, 192.36.148.18 NS.UU.NET 137.39.1.3 ADM.BRL.MIL 192.5.25.4, 192.5.21.30 ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> @ns.InterNIC.net cy. any ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10 ;; flags: qr aa ; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 0 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; cy, type = ANY, class = IN ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS: . 86400 SOA NS.INTERNIC.NET. HOSTMASTER.INTERNIC.NET. ( 930927 ;serial 10800 ;refresh 900 ;retry 604800 ;expire 86400 ) ;minim ;; Sent 1 pkts, answer found in time: 200 msec ;; FROM: seins to SERVER: ns.InterNIC.net 198.41.0.4 ;; WHEN: Tue Sep 28 08:54:42 1993 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 20 rcvd: 81 servers listed in 930924 were: PYTHIA.ICS.FORTH.GR NS.EU.NET SUNIC.SUNET.SE NS.UU.NET ADM.BRL.MIL The list of servers in the CY zone is different, and ALMOST matches the new whois data [aos.brl.mil ./. ADM.BRL.MIL]. When I trick "host" into starting from a server that still has root(930924) "host -C CY." lists: CY NS PYTHIA.ICS.FORTH.GR jupiter.cca.ucy.cy kasenid.jupiter.cca.ucy (20005 86400 14400 2592000 345600) CY NS NS.EU.NET Nameserver NS.EU.NET not responding CY SOA record not found, try again CY NS SUNIC.SUNET.SE jupiter.cca.ucy.cy kasenid.jupiter.cca.ucy (20005 86400 14400 2592000 345600) CY NS NS.UU.NET jupiter.cca.ucy.cy kasenid.jupiter.cca.ucy (20005 86400 14400 2592000 345600) CY NS ADM.BRL.MIL jupiter.cca.ucy.cy kasenid.jupiter.cca.ucy (20005 86400 14400 2592000 345600) Greece (Hellenic Republic) top-level domain (GR-DOM) Insitute of Computer Science P.O. Box 1385 71110 Heraklio, Crete GREECE Domain Name: GR Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Sartzetakis, Stelios (SS241) stelios@CSI.FORTH.GR +30 81 221171 Record last updated on 27-Sep-93. Domain servers in listed order: PYTHIA.ICS.FORTH.GR 139.91.1.1 TERPSI.CSI.FORTH.GR 139.91.1.17 LESVOS.CSI.FORTH.GR 147.52.33.9 NS.EU.NET 192.16.202.11 NS.UU.NET 137.39.1.3 SUNIC.SUNET.SE 192.36.125.2, 192.36.148.18 AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL 128.63.4.82, 192.5.25.82 Top Level domain for the Hellenic Republic ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> @ns.InterNIC.net gr. any ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 10 ;; flags: qr aa ; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 0, Addit: 0 ;; QUESTIONS: ;; gr, type = ANY, class = IN ;; Sent 1 pkts, answer found in time: 340 msec ;; FROM: seins to SERVER: ns.InterNIC.net 198.41.0.4 ;; WHEN: Tue Sep 28 08:53:34 1993 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 20 rcvd: 20 servers listed in 930924 were: PYTHIA.ICS.FORTH.GR NS.EU.NET NS.UU.NET SUNIC.SUNET.SE AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL The list of servers in the GR zone is different, and ALMOST matches the new whois data [aos.brl.mil ./. AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL]. When I trick "host" into starting from a server that still has root(930924) "host -C GR." lists: GR NS PYTHIA.ICS.FORTH.GR pythia.csi.forth.gr stelios.nic.csi.forth.gr (20008 86400 7200 2592000 345600) GR NS NS.EU.NET Nameserver NS.EU.NET not responding GR SOA record not found, try again GR NS NS.UU.NET pythia.csi.forth.gr stelios.nic.csi.forth.gr (20008 86400 7200 2592000 345600) GR NS SUNIC.SUNET.SE pythia.csi.forth.gr stelios.nic.csi.forth.gr (20008 86400 7200 2592000 345600) GR NS AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL pythia.csi.forth.gr stelios.nic.csi.forth.gr (20008 86400 7200 2592000 345600)