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Re: WARNING: AOL is hosed (again)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue Oct 20 20:19:21 1998

Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 19:46:48 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <981016145606.14130@SDG.DRA.COM>; from Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM> on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:56:06PM -0500

On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:56:06PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
> markb@infi.NET (Mark Borchers) writes:
> >Yep, somebody modified the delegation via a forged domain 
> >modification email.  An emergency root server update has been done to 
> >correct the problem.
> 
> Gosh, I wonder if NSI would do an emergency root server update for me.

Amusingly enough, when I was the CE for a tiny little ISP HQ'd in
Dallas and our landlord locked us out, I actually _did_ get NSI to do
an emergency push changing out root NS's to our Florida location's
machines.  

I guess it depends on how desparate you sound.

Of course, this _was_ 2 years ago.

Cheers,
-- jra
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