[18678] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What happened?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe McDonald)
Thu Aug 13 19:56:59 1998
From: joe@vpop.net (Joe McDonald)
To: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 16:29:53 -0700
In-Reply-To: <19980813180326.54017@shell.nacs.net>
Looks like InterNIC is cleaning house. Some 48,000 domains disappeared
from the roots last night.
-joe
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:03:26 -0400, "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
wrote:
>I'm getting bounces on my mailing lists from BELLATLANTIC.NET saying
>"Host not found".
>
>After a little sleuthing, I've found that Bellatlantic.net is on hold!!
>
>I just got off the phone with their NOC. The guy there told me that
>the problem will get fixed with tonight's update. He also told me that
>apparently there were other domains that got put on hold by the InterNIC.
>
>I'd be very surprised if Bell Atlantic hadn't paid for their domains. I
>have to assume this is an InterNIC issue.
>
>Anyone know what's up over there?
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