[21377] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: was i asleep when the gtld servers had the worse problem today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Thu Nov 12 21:55:23 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 18:33:18 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cp.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.93.981113094510.22792D-100000@singapura.singnet.com.sg>; from Mathias Koerber on Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 09:47:01AM +0800
On 11/12/98, Mathias Koerber <mathias@staff.singnet.com.sg> wrote:
> is it just me, or are people confused by the references to
> f.root-servers.net (Paul Vixie's machine)
> and
> f.gtld-servers.net
>
> which was also reported to have problems? I only read
> "F server" in this article, but there are two of those, and
> only f.root-servers.net is operated by volunteers, f.gtld-servers.net
> is (AFAIK) operated by NSI...
Is it just me, or does it appear that this type of confusion
could have easily been avoided, and NSI decided to not even
attempt to avoid it?
I'm usually the last person to run around spouting conspiracy
theories about Network Solutions, but this is getting silly.
--
J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cp.net> "A name indicates what we seek.
Special Agent In Charge (Abuse Issues) An address indicates where it is.
Critical Path, Inc. A route indicates how we get there."
-- Jon Postel (1943-1998)
