On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Charles Daminato wrote:
> 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.
Not if they screw it up. They had some puppy in last time who completely
buggered up all the SOA for the NSI tld's. It's the new ICANN.
Joe Baptista
http://www.dot.god/
dot.GOD Hostmaster
+1 (805) 753-8697
>
> Ah well, off to browse only .net, .org, .uk, .ac, .au, .de, etc domain
> names...
>
> Charles Daminato
> OpenSRS Support Manager
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
>
> >
> > ---------- 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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