Can’t say that would surprise me, most nameservers are behind firewalls that block ICMPs Querying their name servers looks fine however….. [root@uschat ~]# dig @212.58.241.67 bbc.co.uk ; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.5 <<>> @212.58.241.67 bbc.co.uk ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 449 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;bbc.co.uk. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: bbc.co.uk. 300 IN A 212.58.241.131 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: bbc.co.uk. 900 IN NS ns1.rbsov.bbc.co.uk. bbc.co.uk. 900 IN NS ns1.thdow.bbc.co.uk. bbc.co.uk. 900 IN NS ns1.tcams.bbc.co.uk. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.rbsov.bbc.co.uk. 86400 IN A 212.58.241.67 ns1.tcams.bbc.co.uk. 86400 IN A 212.72.49.3 ns1.thdow.bbc.co.uk. 86400 IN A 212.58.240.163 ;; Query time: 84 msec ;; SERVER: 212.58.241.67#53(212.58.241.67) ;; WHEN: Tue Feb 5 06:18:09 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 163 *From:* outages-bounces@outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org] *On Behalf Of *jrk1231-outml@nym.hush.com *Sent:* 05 February 2013 10:44 *To:* outages@outages.org *Subject:* Re: [outages] BBC Down? Traceroutes to all name servers die... $ traceroute 212.58.241.67 traceroute to 212.58.241.67 (212.58.241.67), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets ... 10 12.81.100.0 (12.81.100.0) 29.767 ms 31.279 ms 31.322 ms 11 12.81.105.30 (12.81.105.30) 31.843 ms 29.952 ms 32.544 ms 12 12.81.56.61 (12.81.56.61) 27.129 ms 28.473 ms 30.203 ms 13 74.175.192.58 (74.175.192.58) 32.761 ms 29.940 ms 29.874 ms 14 cr2.rlgnc.ip.att.net (12.123.152.110) 41.231 ms 41.055 ms 40.043 ms 15 cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.3.170) 42.459 ms 41.184 ms 43.378 ms 16 wswdc03jt.ip.att.net (12.122.220.245) 35.785 ms 38.096 ms 35.626 ms 17 192.205.36.134 (192.205.36.134) 101.887 ms 48.829 ms 192.205.34.210 (192.205.34.210) 35.991 ms 18 ash-bb3-link.telia.net (80.91.248.158) 41.435 ms 36.061 ms 41.122 ms 19 ldn-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.246.69) 114.993 ms ldn-bb1-link.telia.net (213.248.65.97) 113.689 ms ldn-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.251.206) 115.943 ms 20 ldn-b3-link.telia.net (213.155.133.31) 112.837 ms 114.172 ms ldn-b3-link.telia.net (80.91.247.86) 111.664 ms 21 * * * 22 * * * ^C $ traceroute 212.72.49.3 traceroute to 212.72.49.3 (212.72.49.3), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets ... 10 12.81.100.58 (12.81.100.58) 30.477 ms 29.052 ms 45.798 ms 11 12.81.104.152 (12.81.104.152) 32.031 ms 28.751 ms 31.601 ms 12 12.81.56.63 (12.81.56.63) 26.293 ms 27.811 ms 30.648 ms 13 65.83.238.190 (65.83.238.190) 30.722 ms 30.920 ms 30.206 ms 14 cr2.rlgnc.ip.att.net (12.123.152.110) 39.762 ms 43.657 ms 39.947 ms 15 cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.3.170) 37.799 ms 39.684 ms 40.838 ms 16 gar18.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.113.41) 43.199 ms 40.284 ms 39.752 ms 17 ae5.edge1.washingtondc12.level3.net (4.68.62.29) 40.020 ms 38.796 ms 40.503 ms 18 * * * 19 * * * ^C $ traceroute 212.58.240.163 traceroute to 212.58.240.163 (212.58.240.163), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets ... 10 12.81.100.38 (12.81.100.38) 58.623 ms 26.734 ms 32.727 ms 11 12.81.104.112 (12.81.104.112) 30.606 ms 30.302 ms 32.276 ms 12 12.81.56.65 (12.81.56.65) 26.646 ms 29.687 ms 29.005 ms 13 74.175.192.54 (74.175.192.54) 25.976 ms 30.333 ms 29.881 ms 14 cr2.rlgnc.ip.att.net (12.123.152.110) 43.871 ms 39.932 ms 39.364 ms 15 cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.3.170) 40.431 ms 39.769 ms 39.126 ms 16 wswdc03jt.ip.att.net (12.122.220.245) 38.322 ms 40.228 ms 35.487 ms 17 192.205.36.134 (192.205.36.134) 36.063 ms 38.332 ms 192.205.34.210 (192.205.34.210) 113.954 ms 18 ash-bb4-link.telia.net (213.155.130.72) 40.171 ms ash-bb4-link.telia.net (213.155.130.2) 38.727 ms ash-bb4-link.telia.net (213.155.130.72) 39.493 ms 19 ldn-bb2-link.telia.net (80.91.251.208) 115.411 ms 114.196 ms 116.435 ms 20 ldn-b3-link.telia.net (80.91.247.88) 116.375 ms ldn-b3-link.telia.net (213.155.133.33) 146.757 ms ldn-b3-link.telia.net (80.91.247.88) 157.562 ms 21 * * * 22 * * * ^C -- Jon R. Kibler +001-843-813-2924 On 02/05/2013 at 5:38 AM, jrk1231-outml@nym.hush.com wrote: None of the name servers are reachable. $ host bbc.co.uk ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached Tried from a couple different locations. Same result. Jon -- Jon R. Kibler +001-843-813-2924