2012-05-11

Cutbacks at the FSA

So at this point http://fsa.gov.uk/ is failing to resolve, but http://www.fsa.gov.uk/ works fine.

After all, why would the FSA employ anyone who knows about networking? It's not like it's relevant to their mission of regulating financial institutions with a highly connected network infrastructure.

bash-3.2$ dig fsa.gov.uk

; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 <<>> fsa.gov.uk
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1312
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;fsa.gov.uk.                    IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
fsa.gov.uk.             1740    IN      SOA     ns0-f.dns.pipex.net. hostmaster.uk.uu.net.
    2012040701 28800 7200 2678400 1800

;; Query time: 37 msec
;; SERVER: 67.218.104.1#53(67.218.104.1)
;; WHEN: Fri May 11 17:58:29 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 100

bash-3.2$ dig www.fsa.gov.uk

; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 <<>> www.fsa.gov.uk
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48099
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.fsa.gov.uk.                        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.fsa.gov.uk.         810     IN      A       194.176.221.146

;; Query time: 60 msec
;; SERVER: 67.218.104.1#53(67.218.104.1)
;; WHEN: Fri May 11 17:58:47 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 48

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