[dns-wg] RIPE NCC Authoritative and Secondary DNS services on Monday 14 December

Hi Jaap,

> On 29 dec. 2015, at 19:58, Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap at NLnetLabs.nl> wrote:
> 
> Romeo Zwart writes:
> 
>> Hi Jaap,
>> 
>>> On 15/12/29 13:08 , Jaap Akkerhuis wrote:
>>> Romeo Zwart writes:
>>> 
>>>> Yesterday, Monday 14 December 2015, RIPE NCC Authoritative DNS services
>>>> were functioning in a severely degraded state during parts of the day.
>>>> 
>>>> etc.
>>> 
>>> According a message from Stephane Bortzmeyer
>>> 
>>>   "The RIPE name server was retired on 16 december, for unknown
>>>    reasons (as far as I know, the RIPE-NCC did not communicate on
>>>    that)."
>>> 
>>> Can you comment on that?
>> 
>> With this limited amount of information, that would be hard. Which zones
>> are we talking about and what does 'retired' mean in this context?
>> 
>> I haven't seen Stephane's message (yet). Was that a private message or
>> sent to a mailing list? Can you forward the whole message or have
>> Stephane provide more detail about his observations directly to me?
> 
> It seems that I have indeed removed to much of the context.
> 
> Stephane's message was on the centr security list which archives
> seem to be sealed (contrary to what I thought). It was refering to
> the attack on the .tr name servers about which you reported in
> <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/2015-December/003184.html>
> that it had impacted RIPE's DNS service.

Ah ok, some context helps. :) 

> Apparently Stephan wanted
> to know why RIPE NCC dropped serving the .tr zone. (My guess, since
> de RIPE NCC dropped out of the root zone as well, it was done in
> coordination with the tr people).

Indeed it was. 

> So I was just curious wat happened on RIPE's end.

We can share some more detail next week. 

Kind regards,
Romeo

> 
>    jaap
>