Welcome to a the broken legacy of ancient home-grown DNS code and how difficult it is to “undo” bad decisions of the past.
In this case, the domain in question was registered with Enom who has historically supported CNAMEs at the apex. Its one of those things that makes sense to everybody outside the DNS technical community. We are actively working on a project to replace the existing legacy infrastructure and remediate the broken behavior. Its taking longer than we had hoped but its coming…. If anybody comes across Enom, Name.com <http://name.com/> or Rightside.co <http://rightside.co/> related issues, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me. Wayne MacLaurin CTO Rightside [email protected] > On Oct 20, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Paul Vixie <[email protected]> wrote: > > it's not april 1. please stop. > > vixie > > re: > > $ dig @dns1.registrar-servers.com +short thereitwas.com CNAME > thereitwas.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com. > > $ dig +trace thereitwas.com > > ; <<>> DiG 9.8.2 <<>> +trace thereitwas.com > ;; global options: +cmd > . 74554 IN NS h.root-servers.net. > . 74554 IN NS k.root-servers.net. > . 74554 IN NS g.root-servers.net. > . 74554 IN NS d.root-servers.net. > . 74554 IN NS f.root-servers.net. > . 74554 IN NS j.root-servers.net. > . 74554 IN NS m.root-servers.net. > . 74554 IN NS e.root-servers.net. > . 74554 IN NS b.root-servers.net. > . 74554 IN NS l.root-servers.net. > . 74554 IN NS i.root-servers.net. > . 74554 IN NS c.root-servers.net. > . 74554 IN NS a.root-servers.net. > ;; Received 509 bytes from 10.62.200.11#53(10.62.200.11) in 158 ms > > com. 172800 IN NS k.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS c.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS g.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS i.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS a.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS e.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS h.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS f.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS b.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS l.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS d.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS j.gtld-servers.net. > com. 172800 IN NS m.gtld-servers.net. > ;; Received 492 bytes from 192.112.36.4#53(192.112.36.4) in 5253 ms > > thereitwas.com. 172800 IN NS dns2.registrar-servers.com. > thereitwas.com. 172800 IN NS dns1.registrar-servers.com. > thereitwas.com. 172800 IN NS dns3.registrar-servers.com. > thereitwas.com. 172800 IN NS dns4.registrar-servers.com. > thereitwas.com. 172800 IN NS dns5.registrar-servers.com. > ;; Received 369 bytes from 192.55.83.30#53(192.55.83.30) in 432 ms > > thereitwas.com. 60 IN CNAME > thereitwas.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com. > . 518400 IN NS a.root-servers.net. > . 518400 IN NS b.root-servers.net. > . 518400 IN NS c.root-servers.net. > . 518400 IN NS d.root-servers.net. > . 518400 IN NS e.root-servers.net. > . 518400 IN NS f.root-servers.net. > . 518400 IN NS g.root-servers.net. > . 518400 IN NS h.root-servers.net. > . 518400 IN NS i.root-servers.net. > . 518400 IN NS j.root-servers.net. > . 518400 IN NS k.root-servers.net. > . 518400 IN NS l.root-servers.net. > . 518400 IN NS m.root-servers.net. > ;; Received 303 bytes from 173.245.59.40#53(173.245.59.40) in 139 ms > > -- > Paul Vixie > _______________________________________________ > dns-operations mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations > dns-jobs mailing list > https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
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