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Re: h.root-servers.net returning false negatives (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Slemko)
Wed Jan 13 14:56:41 1999

Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:40:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901130959040.11644-100000@alive.znep.com>

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Marc Slemko wrote:

> FYI, below is a copy of a message I sent to the appropriate people.
> 
> I guess that this time it isn't as bad since it is at least possible that
> there were automated scripts that didn't detect this, since it is only
> happening for certain domains.
> 
> Expect sporadic difficulties resolving names for domains that are impacted
> if you happen to talk to h.root-servers.net.

This appears to have been fixed ~10:30PST, half an hour or so after I sent
the original message.

There are still a bunch of root nameservers that appear to be a few days
behind on zone file updates, but that is another issue.


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