There appears to have been a transient dns glitch at Fermilab
around 7AM our time this morning, although I've seen no official
announcement of the same.  the servers below are reachable again now.

Steve timm


On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

> If you can read this, the problems have probably been fixed,
> but I'm having DNS problems contacting scientificlinux.org
>
> # host ftp.scientificlinux.org
> Host ftp.scientificlinux.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
>
> # host linux21.fnal.gov.
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
> (I can still get response from home. Either the cached entries
> haven't timed out yet or the dnssec on the work DNS isn't helping.)
>
>

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