25% of the world can't see .com - hrm... is that 25% largely awake? Minor
incident...
Is that 25% the west coast of the US? Likely a major incident.
Personally, any outage is BAD - isn't the whole BIND system SUPPOSED to be
redundant and multi-layered to have 100% uptime? I'm sure I read that
somewhere.
Ah well, off to browse only .net, .org, .uk, .ac, .au, .de, etc domain
names...
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Support Manager
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:13:36 -0700
> From: Derek J. Balling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: NSI Outage
>
> So we noticed today that "*.com" is boned on four of the
> root-servers... This is the message we just got internally on the
> topic:
>
> >Sam OBrian of NSI rang me back. He is currently contacting ops folk.
> >We confirmed that {b,g,j,m}.root-servers.net have no NS-set for com.
> >That is, "*.com" does not exist for more than a quarter of the world.
> >He feels this is "not a major incident. This is a minor incident."
>
> Sigh.
>
> I have to ask the NSI folks here... what WOULD you consider a major incident?
>
> D
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