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

[Kim Holburn]

And abs.gov.au only has 2 name servers.  Although one of them is a  
telstra machine.

I was listening to the ABC news and someone from the census was  
worried that a lot of people had already filled the census out on- 
line.  He was saying that they might go somewhere else on the night  
and be counted twice so you should wait and fill it out on-line.

If everyone who is going to fill out the census online goes to the  
site on the same night --- should be interesting.

By the way census.gov.au is not valid you're supposed to use  
www.census.gov.au but you can also use :
stream0.census.gov.au and similarly stream1 stream2 stream3 or stream4


On 2006 Aug 02, at 5:02 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:

> 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
>
> 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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