[18739] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Headaches.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Huegen)
Sat Aug 15 13:22:29 1998
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 10:09:35 -0700
From: "Craig A. Huegen" <chuegen@quadrunner.com>
To: "Ryan K. Brooks" <ryan@inc.net>
Cc: max@inc.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <35D5514D.A2226961@inc.net>; from Ryan K. Brooks on Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 04:13:49AM -0500
On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 04:13:49AM -0500, Ryan K. Brooks wrote:
==>How did this happen anyway? InterNIC? Postel? Doesn't this error imply that
==>a percentage of the Internet was unresolvable by the entire planet?
No. It means that any mis-spelled top-level domain went to you.
So you got all the traffic for .ent, .ocm, .cmo, .nte, etc domains =)
(.net and .com permutations for those of you who didn't see it)
/cah