WikiLeaks EveryDNS problems

By nick | Thoughts
7 Dec 2010

On the 3rd December 2010 American DNS provider EveryDNS decided to drop Wikileaks.org from their systems, leaving any new visitors to the main site, wikileaks.org left in the dark.  Now on the 7th December 2010 it still seems that the wikileaks.org domain is pointing to EveryDNS’ servers despite lookups to that domain being dropped by their servers.

; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> wikileaks.org ns
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18849
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;wikileaks.org. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
wikileaks.org. 86399 IN NS ns1.everydns.net.
wikileaks.org. 86399 IN NS ns2.everydns.net.
wikileaks.org. 86399 IN NS ns3.everydns.net.
wikileaks.org. 86399 IN NS ns4.everydns.net.
;; Query time: 53 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Dec  7 17:47:50 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 115

If you’re trying to access the wikileaks site, you’ll want to visit one of their mirrors here.

Update 08/12/2010

You can now access our own mirror here http://wikileaks.elfnet.org

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