On 10 Oct 2014, at 23:02, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:

folks,

for those not already aware, control of the dec.com domain was transferred to an unknown third party a couple of weeks ago and is no longer owned by HP Inc, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise or anyone with prior responsibility to the remains of Digital Equipment Corporation.

This means that the address records for the uucp-gw-{1,2}.pa.dec.com nameservers are controlled by an unknown third party.

Most organisations migrated away from these host names many moons ago (including all but one cctld), but there are still some second-level domains out there who use these hosts for NS records.

If any ccTLDs recognise this these host names in their zone files, the old farts still using them might appreciate a heads up on what's happened and what they need to do.

Thanks for this Nick. Do you know if IANA have been informed? I would like to think IANA is in contact with the TLDs who have these legacy delegations and is co-ordinating a response. This might also be an opportunity for those TLD operators to find other DNS suppliers. Perhaps they'll arrange contracts too instead of relying on the presumably undocumented arrangements for uucp-gw-{1,2}.pa.dec.com.

On Oct 10, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:

This means that the address records for the uucp-gw-{1,2}.pa.dec.com nameservers are controlled by an unknown third party.

Most organisations migrated away from these host names many moons ago (including all but one cctld), but there are still some second-level domains out there who use these hosts for NS records.

FWIW, the "official" replacement hostnames are ns{3,4}.hpl.hp.com, and the affected ccTLD is in process to update to those. kim