[21476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: was i asleep when the gtld servers had the worse problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Robb)
Sun Nov 15 22:51:51 1998
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 20:45:45 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>
In-Reply-To: <19981112183318.18821@cp.net>
At 18:33 11/12/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>> 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.
Every time one of these kinds of snafus happens and NSI denies it was their
fault, it reminds me of that scene from "Animal House" where the crowd
tramples the ROTC cadet who's shouting "All is well!"...
Spammers should be investigated by Ken Starr!
Dean Robb
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