On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Jack Bates wrote: > > From: "Sean Donelan" > > > So does anyone know what happened to the US DOD NIC during this event? > > They provide one of the root servers, but they disappeared off the net > > for much of this event. > > > > My personal opinion, though it doesn't account for much, is that they were > testing out the new ways one can serve DNS from a MS-SQL database. Then > again, they could just be smart and be paranoid. If I had a private network > where security was required to be high, I'd have pulled the plug until the > storm was over. Why take chances?
eh? You are host to one of the Internet's root DNS servers and you pull the plug when things go a bit hairy on you. Even for a hosting company I'd not be happy if I was a customer and they shutdown the whole of their Internet access because of some problem like this! Steve
