It appears that the issue at first impacted all servers in the anycast pool however eventually it only impacted servers ns-a2 and ns-a4. Those servers started returning NXDOMAINs. I am wondering if this was related to the root server key change yesterday. .IO seems to struggle with basic DNS engineering. We are seeing stabilization except for minor issues still on one of the gTLD servers.
For more info check the other post on this topic: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293578" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293578</a><p>Not sure why that was taken of the front page suddenly.
Noticed this issue this morning too...<p><a href="https://twitter.com/bertjwregeer/status/910515512903319552" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/bertjwregeer/status/910515512903319552</a><p>Interestingly enough I found that only some of them were returning NXDOMAIN's, so resolution would sometimes work and sometimes it would fail completely.
I am so done with .io. This is one of many issues they've had in the last year.<p>My problem is that we have scripts all over customer websites hardcoded with api.gator.io<p>We're going to have to have them update the scripts and that is going to be a major pain.
team mate posted on HN already about this: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293578" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293578</a>
Seems like a hijacking: <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/10/io_hijacking_in_transition_cockup/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/10/io_hijacking_in_tra...</a>
Well, the .io domain name is intended for the British Indian Ocean territory.<p>I think the common practice of misusing TLDs (such as registering an .io domain if you are not from the British Indian Ocean territory, or having a Soviet Union domain... a country that no longer exist), is bad.<p>However, I acknowledge this is not the root problem. The root problem is the scarcity of domains under traditional TLDs, and that's in great part due to speculation (e.g: domain parking). It is hard to establish what constitutes
placeholder content, therefore rules preventing domain parking are hard if not unfeasible to forbid.