Quoting David Sexton on Saturday September 13, 2008:
>
> Has any one noticed issues with .net.au at the moment?
> One of my clients called saying their site was down - which is actually  
> CNAME'd elsewhere, but when I used my secondary's DNS checker, I was  
> getting an error saying that domain wasn't listed at Root server.

No net.au domains are listed in the DNS root servers, so it is correct
other than that it is an "error". The root servers will only provide a
referral to the .au authorities.

> Tried a few other websites that do similar things on other .net.au  
> domains, and seem to be seeing the same thing - they don't appear to be  
> able to query .net.au addresses.
>
> Has any one else noticed this, or have any idea whats going on? It's  
> possible that I'm just plain mad.

If you give an example of one that doesn't work it would help to
identify any problems.

There is no problem resolving iinet.net.au, as an example, from the root
servers:

.                       91561   IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       91561   IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       91561   IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       91561   IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       91561   IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       91561   IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       91561   IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       91561   IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       91561   IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       91561   IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       91561   IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       91561   IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       91561   IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 500 bytes from 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1) in 92 ms

au.                     172800  IN      NS      SEC3.APNIC.NET.
au.                     172800  IN      NS      AUDNS.OPTUS.NET.
au.                     172800  IN      NS      AUNIC.AUNIC.NET.
au.                     172800  IN      NS      NS1.AUDNS.net.au.
au.                     172800  IN      NS      DNS1.TELSTRA.NET.
au.                     172800  IN      NS      SEC1.APNIC.NET.
au.                     172800  IN      NS      ADNS2.BERKELEY.EDU.
au.                     172800  IN      NS      ADNS1.BERKELEY.EDU.
;; Received 416 bytes from 202.12.27.33#53(M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 109 ms

net.au.                 259200  IN      NS      ns2.ausregistry.net.au.
net.au.                 259200  IN      NS      ns1.audns.net.au.
net.au.                 259200  IN      NS      ns3.melbourneit.com.
net.au.                 259200  IN      NS      dns1.telstra.net.
net.au.                 259200  IN      NS      ns1.ausregistry.net.au.
net.au.                 259200  IN      NS      ns3.ausregistry.net.au.
net.au.                 259200  IN      NS      ns4.ausregistry.net.au.
net.au.                 259200  IN      NS      au2ld.CSIRO.au.
net.au.                 259200  IN      NS      audns.optus.net.
;; Received 349 bytes from 128.32.136.14#53(ADNS2.BERKELEY.EDU) in 254
ms

iinet.net.au.           86400   IN      NS      ns1.iinet.net.au.
iinet.net.au.           86400   IN      NS      ns2.iinet.net.au.
iinet.net.au.           86400   IN      NS      ns3.iinet.net.au.
;; Received 132 bytes from 202.65.12.73#53(ns1.ausregistry.net.au) in
416 ms

iinet.net.au.           86400   IN      A       203.59.24.221
iinet.net.au.           86400   IN      NS      ns1.iinet.net.au.
iinet.net.au.           86400   IN      NS      ns2.iinet.net.au.
iinet.net.au.           86400   IN      NS      ns3.iinet.net.au.
;; Received 148 bytes from 203.14.168.3#53(ns1.iinet.net.au) in 474 ms

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