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It seems someone shut down all NIH DNS servers. Right now the NIH website, PubMed and BLAST are up, but not resolvable. Cloudflare's 1.0.0.1 DNS resolver seem
by raphman 2y ago
It seems someone shut down all NIH DNS servers.
Right now the NIH website, PubMed and BLAST are up, but not resolvable.
Cloudflare's 1.0.0.1 DNS resolver seems to still have cached the records. Google and most others I tried did not. This probably explains why some people on social media could access the sites while others couldn't.
Workaround via /etc/hosts :
156.40.212.210 nih.gov
96.17.96.9 www.nih.gov
34.107.134.59 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
130.14.250.10 ftp.wip.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
130.14.250.10 ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
130.14.29.110 blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
EDIT:
While ns.nih.gov, ns2.nih.gov, and ns3.nih.gov do not respond, the nameserver at lhcns1.nlm.nih.gov (130.14.55.72) does.
Also see https://tldr.nettime.org/@ww/114089972404202687 https://tldr.nettime.org/@ww/114089972404202687
- anotherpaul 2y agoThank you for writing this down. Might become relevant if they don't solve that before Monday. One can only hope this is not intentional.
- imhoguy 2y agoCool, thanks! While the chaos monkey is at work, the true ARPANET spirit is still alive!
- the_real_cher 2y agoNice work!
- stwrzn 2y agoThey were not shut down. Confirm yourself using: dig +tcp @$(dig +short ns.nih.gov @a.ns.gov) www.nih.gov
- raphman 2y agoYes. As noted elsewhere in this thread, they still respond to TCP requests. I did not know this at the time of writing.