[LINK] Fwd: Census Config [Was: Personal comments on the eCensus form]

[Kim Holburn]

Surprising that there are two nameservers for census.abs.gov.au and  
they are both on the same subnet

$ host -t ns census.abs.gov.au
census.abs.gov.au name server ecenpd00dn02.census.abs.gov.au.
census.abs.gov.au name server ecenpd00dn01.census.abs.gov.au.
$ host ecenpd00dn02.census.abs.gov.au.
ecenpd00dn02.census.abs.gov.au has address 202.81.31.133
$ host ecenpd00dn01.census.abs.gov.au.
ecenpd00dn01.census.abs.gov.au has address 202.81.31.134




On 2006 Aug 02, at 10:48 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:

>
>
> Roger Clarke wrote:
>> Doesn't seem to have got through by 18:55, so this is a re-send.
>> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:02:25 +1000
>> To: link at anu.edu.au
>> From: Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>
>> Subject: Census Config [Was: Personal comments on the eCensus form]
>> Cc: domain.management at abs.gov.au (Duncan Anderson)
>> Tom Worthington wrote at Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:26:03 +1000:
>>>  So far I haven't been able to get the web site to respond. ABS  
>>> says this is because the web site is new and I should check if my  
>>> ISP has updated their DNS recently. But I have the same problem  
>>> with a commercial ISP and via ANU and AARnet.
>> [Roger's seriously dubious comments about ISPs needing to actively  
>> 'update their DNS' excised]
>> At 16:33 +1000 2/8/06, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>>> DNS shouldn't be a factor; if your local DNS cache does not have  
>>> it then it should go and resolve it externally thru recursion.   
>>> Are you putting www. in front - I found that it is required.
>> Currently, www.census.abs.gov.au resolves to 202.81.31.30, 62, 94  
>> and 126 (round-robin on one sub-net?!), but times out on pings.   
>> The DNS entry is below.
>> Whereas census.abs.gov.au says 'Bad name, address or endpoint  
>> (OTBadBameErr)'.  (I'm using Interarchy 8.1.1 at 16:50-55 UT+10).
>> Am I alone in being astonished that:
>> (a)  there's no duplicate name-server (on a separate sub-net, of  
>> course)
>> (b)  there's no name-server entry for the domain-name without 'www.'
>> (c)  all of the servers appear to be on the same sub-net, and hence
>>      the service is seriously fragile
>
> Yes, I agree, and as it's all probably behind one router, that is a  
> disaster waiting to happen, but it's not traceable once it gets  
> into IBM's circuits.
>
>> I'm not a practitioner in this area, just someone who drifts in  
>> and out from time to time, so I'll allow for the possibility that  
>> the config is better than it looks ...
>> Domain Name:             abs.gov.au
>> Last Modified:           18-Jan-2006 02:46:52 UTC
>> Registrar ID:            R00118-AR
>> Registrar Name:          Finance
>> Status:                  OK
>> Registrant:              Australian Bureau of Statistics
>> Registrant ID:           OTHER n/a
>> Registrant ROID:         C3574382-AR
>> Registrant Contact Name: Duncan Anderson
>> Registrant Email:        domain.management at abs.gov.au
>> Tech ID:                 C3574383-AR
>> Tech Name:               Duncan Anderson
>> Tech Email:              domain.management at abs.gov.au
>> Name Server:             ns1.telstra.net
>> Name Server:             aurora.abs.gov.au
>> Name Server IP:          144.53.253.102

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