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Re: was i asleep when the gtld servers had the worse problem today?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Davis)
Fri Nov 13 07:52:42 1998

To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Paul Vixie's message <g3iugjlui0.fsf@bb.rc.vix.com> of 13 Nov 1998 03:09:11 PST.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:21:36 +0100
From: Ray Davis <ray@carpe.net>

> 1. there is definitely some confusion here.  my f (root-servers.net) was
>    lame (which is not fatal to resolvers who query it).  NSI's f (gtld-
>    servers.net) was insane (which was fatal to resolvers who queried it.)

Aren't NSI's nameservers running bind?  If not, then that's scary.
If so, then why wouldn't they also become lame rather than insane?

Cheers,
Ray

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