in-addr.arpa server problems for europe?

[bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer)]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:22:17AM +0100,
 Michelle Sullivan <matthew at sorbs.net> wrote 
 a message of 185 lines which said:

> 213.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      NS-PRI.RIPE.NET.
> 213.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      NS3.NIC.FR.
> 213.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      SUNIC.SUNET.SE.
> 213.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      SNS-PB.ISC.ORG.
> 213.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      SEC1.APNIC.NET.
> 213.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      SEC3.APNIC.NET.
> 213.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      TINNIE.ARIN.NET.
> ;; Received 224 bytes from 192.228.79.201#53(B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 20011 ms
> 
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

It is highly improbable that all these name servers are unreachable
from you. Therefore, I suspect that *content* is the issue. RIPE-NCC
zones are signed with DNSSEC. Are you sure you do not have a broken
middlebox which deletes DNSSEC-signed answers?

(I tried from an US/Datotel/Level3 machine and everything works.)