[swinog] nic.ch no NS

2014-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Daniel Rechsteiner
Hi everyone, nic.ch seems to have dropped out from the .ch root servers: dig @130.59.1.80 nic.ch ns does not give me any nameservers. Also whois nic.ch does not show any name servers (although the domain still exists). Daniel smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [swinog] nic.ch no NS

2014-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Daniel Stirnimann
nic.ch is in the ch zone itself. So it's not a zone of its own. You will find it in whois so that people see that it's not available anymore. btw. SOA record reveals that: dig nic.ch soa ; DiG 9.8.5-P1 nic.ch soa ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status:

Re: [swinog] nic.ch no NS

2014-05-07 Diskussionsfäden swinog-list
On Wed, 07 May 2014 16:15:32 +0200 Daniel Stirnimann daniel.stirnim...@switch.ch wrote: nic.ch is in the ch zone itself. So it's not a zone of its own. Hhmm... in times long gone, it was possible to register MX records for domains that were only used for mail directly in the CH tld. This was

Re: [swinog] nic.ch no NS

2014-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Daniel Rechsteiner
nic.ch is in the ch zone itself. So it's not a zone of its own. You will find it in whois so that people see that it's not available anymore. Thanks. I suspected something like that, so I compared this to other ccTLDs and it's different there, e.g. for nic.fr and denic.de you get NS records:

Re: [swinog] nic.ch no NS

2014-05-07 Diskussionsfäden gall
My colleague daniel has already gone home, so I'll chime in here as the person who included nic.ch in the ch zone a few years back :) On Wed, 07 May 2014 16:55:45 +0200, Daniel Rechsteiner drechstei...@goeast.ch said: nic.ch is in the ch zone itself. So it's not a zone of its own. You will

Re: [swinog] nic.ch no NS

2014-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Daniel Rechsteiner
Interesting. I never noticed this. Thanks for the explanation, always nice to learn something new. Daniel g...@switch.ch mailto:g...@switch.ch 7. Mai 2014 17:42 My colleague daniel has already gone home, so I'll chime in here as the person who included nic.ch in the ch zone a few years back

Re: [swinog] nic.ch no NS

2014-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Tonnerre LOMBARD
Salut, On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 07:54:07PM +0200, g...@switch.ch wrote: I'm not going to comment this, but maybe the following anecdote will make you feel better. I originally wanted to use ns.ch for the ch name servers. This was turned down internally because it would violate our two-letter