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Re: root nameserver problems ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Jul 17 11:30:08 1997

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 11:20:41 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: bmanning@ISI.EDU
Cc: hostmaster@mci.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707171213.AA16902@zed.isi.edu>; from bmanning@ISI.EDU on Thu, Jul 17, 1997 at 05:13:09AM -0700

On Thu, Jul 17, 1997 at 05:13:09AM -0700, bmanning@ISI.EDU wrote:
> Roy, methinks you are a bit hasty here.  j-m have never had tlds present.
> And the other servers are being corrected as we "speak".  But then, perhaps
> you don't have a problem reloading your servers every couple hours or so... 

Maybe I'm just too much of a babe in the woods, but I don't think he's
being a _bit_ hasty.  AFAIC, root nameservers are the quintessence of
"mission critical", and the Internet simply is _not_ a geek toy anymore;
it actually _matters_.

Cheers,
-- jra
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