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[deepend <deepend AT tilde.club>]

Not to interrupt this topic.  Just would like to confirm any of my emails get 
through on here.  I get a lot of bounce back anytime I’ve replied.   Not sure 
if that’s directly to do with my email account or something else.   

Disabling non working T1s is a great idea though.


Thanks!


On Apr 16, 2026, at 2:37 PM, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:
> 
> Of course the moment I send this email, I finally locate the previous 
> discussion.  From August 15, 2025:
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> ns3.opennic.glue    (neo)    Disabled in 2019
> ns11.opennic.glue    (o)    Last responded April 2024
> ns12.opennic.glue    (cyb)    Last responded June 2020
> ns13.opennic.glue    (epic)    Last responded October 2023
> ns14.opennic.glue    (chan)    Online but no longer serving Opennic data 
> (last pass was Jun 2024)
> 
> Additionally NS5 and NS9 are unresponsive, but do not serve any TLDs 
> (possibly should be removed then?)
> 
> I have also heard that the admin of .null/.oz has not been responding to 
> requests for new TLDs even though their server is still operational.
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> 
> 
>> On 4/16/26 14:28, Jeff Taylor wrote:
>> We started discussing the T1 servers before, I don't remember if there had 
>> been any specific resolutions so I thought I'd start a new thread to keep 
>> the issues separate.
>> 
>> NS5: Offline since April 7, 2024.  Does not host any TLDs
>> 
>> NS10: Failing NULL and OZ since Jan 29, 2026.  Hosts NULL and OZ.
>> (Does not seem to respond at all to NULL queries, occasionally responds to 
>> OZ queries)
>> NULL zone is 601 lines long: 3 A records, 585 NS records.  Serial 
>> 2025124686
>> OZ zone is 615  lines long: 3 A records is 599 NS records.  Serial 
>> 2025124709
>> 
>> NS12: Offline since June 9, 2020.  Hosts the CYB zone.
>> CYB zone is 485 lines long: 180 A records, 62 NS records.  Serial 
>> 1576030081
>> 
>> NS13: offline since October 23, 2023.  Hosts the EPIC zone
>> EPIC zone is 1-74 lines long: 418 A records, 191 NS records. Serial 
>> 3603527043
>> 
>> NS14: failing since June 2024.  Hosts the CHAN zone
>> I believe the admin of that server responded, but it doesn't appear that 
>> any updates have been made.  The server is refusing all queries.
>> CHAN zone is 1364 lines long: 550 A records, 189 NS records. Serial 
>> 1556853233
>> 
>> My recommendation is to disable all of these for now until they can be 
>> fixed or deleted.  The TLD zones would continue to be hosted by the 
>> operational servers just like they are doing now, however it would prevent 
>> the server from being listed as a DNS source and testing would stop on 
>> these machines (meaning they wouldn't automatically be brought back to 
>> online status until the admin lets us know they are operational again).  
>> The servers would no longer be listed on the reports page, and would only 
>> appear on the servers page to people who logged in.  The admin of each 
>> machine can log in to the servers page and reactivate their machine 
>> whenever they are ready.
>> 
>> Any thoughts?  Any further discussion?  I don't think this is something we 
>> need to vote on since it's more of an administrative change, but open 
>> discussion is still encouraged.  If there is no communication from any of 
>> the admins, then we will start new threads on the fate of each of the TLDs.
>> 
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