http://www.nsa.gov http://www.nsa.gov is up. I have noticed lately that an awful lot of the government domains no longer have a webserver answering for the roo

http://www.nsa.gov http://www.nsa.gov is up. I have noticed lately that an awful lot of the government domains no longer have a webserver answering for the root domain and or do not have an a record at the root domain. $ unbound-host -v navy.mil navy.mil has no address (secure) navy.mil has no IPv6 address (secure) navy.mil mail is handled by 5 mx14.nmci.navy.mil. (secure) navy.mil mail is handled by 5 mx15.nmci.navy.mil. (secure) navy.mil mail is handled by 5 mx13.nmci.navy.mil. (secure) $ unbound-host -v dod.mil dod.mil has no address (secure) dod.mil has no IPv6 address (secure) dod.mil has no mail handler record (secure) $ unbound-host -v nga.mil nga.mil has no address (secure) nga.mil has no IPv6 address (secure) nga.mil mail is handled by 5 mailnde.nga.mil. (secure) nga.mil mail is handled by 5 mailarn.nga.mil. (secure) Updated: In addition to the "trend" I mentioned they might be doing maintenance. The dnssec records for nsa.gov are borked at the moment: http://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/nsa.gov http://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/nsa.gov dnsviz at sandia is super slow lately, which sucks. But you can compare verisign's answer to sandia's if you want: http://dnsviz.net/d/nsa.gov/dnssec/ http://dnsviz.net/d/nsa.gov/dnssec/ http://dnsviz.net/d/www.nsa.gov/dnssec/ http://dnsviz.net/d/www.nsa.gov/dnssec/