At 09:32 12/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Still no reply from Internic this morning, Thursday, 9:27 a.m. EDT. "Server
>could be down or is not responding". I note that Markus (I think it was)
>got through OK later on yesterday... anyone else tried them lately?
>
>
>From another list:
Paul A Vixie wrote:
>
> the facts are, internic's own servers (f.gtld-server.net etc) were sending
> back NOERROR/NOANSWER whereas my server was sending back a lame delegation.
> that means clients would try other servers to gain the right final answer
> if they got a bad answer from my server, but they would just report a fatal
> application error ("host not found") if they contacted an internic gtld
> server.
>
> the other fact of note is that the reason my server was lame had to do with
> some kind of provisioning problem inside internic or its isp. my own mrtg
> graphs are clean for this period, and internic was the only site i couldn't
> reach at high bandwidth. f.root-servers.net was lame for two days because
> it could not fetch COM from NSI.
>
> yet NSI, in its statements to reporters and to users, are of the following
> form. it is REALLY DAMNED HARD to not get pissed off at this kind of BS.
> *MY* server was not sending fatally bad answers, *THEIRS* were.
>
> i've been in touch with wired news and have been queried about this from
> CNN and i'll be telling the whole story to every reporter who can reach me.
> i've seen holtzman's comments about "unreliable volunteer servers" in the
> WSJ in the past and i'm no longer willing to sit by and be slandered when
> it was NSI's problem all along. (tcpdump doesn't lie.)
>
> (a total of five servers were having trouble, of two different kinds, so
> this was a complex failure situation.)
>
Joop Teernstra
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http://www.imachination.com
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