Discussion List for Freenum/ITAD Subscriber Number (ISN) Project

[John Todd <>]

On Dec 12, 2013, at 7:14 AM, Paulo Ferreira 
<>
 wrote:

> Hi,
> my name is Paulo Ferreira and I'm working in VoIP team at the Portuguese 
> NREN and I'm testing ISN numbering method in some trial environments.
> 
> I'm not sure that this is the right place to post this issue, but because 
> I'm not getting any answers from other channels from freenum.org, I'm 
> sending this email to ask you if you already faced this problem and how to 
> solve it.

Sorry about the no reply to the 

 address - it was marked as spam for some reason.  I've cleared the flags on 
that mail.

> I've configured my ITAD zone in freenum.org app to delegate it to my name 
> servers. When I click in "View DNS", the app show me the configuration of 
> my ITAD zone ok, pointing it to my name servers as configured, but when I 
> query freenum.org name servers I cannot get poositive answers to that 
> configuration. I already sent an email to 
> 
>  in the past week but I got no answer.

There were two problems with the zone:

1) The zone had not yet been manually approved for inclusion into the DNS.  
All new entries get a human approval process before they are permitted to be 
added to the zonefile (this is not clearly documented, and I apologize for 
the confusion - even though you were able to log into the web interface, the 
entries are held until approved.)

2) The zone didn't appear to be correct on your nameservers, or was somehow 
missing.  I just looked at your configuration this morning, actually, and 
noticed it was a bit unusually configured.  Here's what I get when I looked 
at your zone earlier today:

zot9:jtodd$ dig @ns01.voip.fccn.pt. SOA 1764.freenum.org.

; <<>> DiG 9.8.5-P1 <<>> @ns01.voip.fccn.pt. SOA 1764.freenum.org.
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55563
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: Messages has 2 extra bytes at end

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;1764.freenum.org.              IN      SOA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
1764.freenum.org.       50      IN      A       169.254.1.1

;; Query time: 75 msec
;; SERVER: 193.136.192.132#53(193.136.192.132)
;; WHEN: Thu Dec 12 06:07:24 PST 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 52

zot9:jtodd$


There didn't seem to be a correct SOA in there.  Now, looking at the same 
zone just a few moments ago shows what I think is the correct answer for the 
zone:


zot9:jtodd$ dig @ns01.voip.fccn.pt. SOA 1764.freenum.org.

; <<>> DiG 9.8.5-P1 <<>> @ns01.voip.fccn.pt. SOA 1764.freenum.org.
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 26660
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;1764.freenum.org.              IN      SOA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
1764.freenum.org.       3600    IN      SOA     ns01.voip.fccn.pt. 
gestao.voip.fccn.pt. 2013120401 21600 7200 1209600 3600

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
1764.freenum.org.       3600    IN      NS      ns01.voip.fccn.pt.
1764.freenum.org.       3600    IN      NS      ns02.voip.fccn.pt.

;; Query time: 156 msec
;; SERVER: 193.136.192.132#53(193.136.192.132)
;; WHEN: Thu Dec 12 07:35:51 PST 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 127

zot9:jtodd$


I'd need to know a "valid" number to fully test to see if your nameserver has 
the right records.  If you had an NAPTR entry for 1234*1764, I would do a 
"dig" like this:

zot9:jtodd$ dig @ns01.voip.fccn.pt. NAPTR 4.3.2.1.1764.freenum.org.


Currently, that query returns no values but that's OK since I don't know if 
that is a valid number.  If you were going to be putting a wildcard in there, 
then it should reply back with a valid NAPTR result.

JT



> 
> Did someone had issues like this one?
> 
> Best regards,
> PF
> 
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