[30703] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NRIC Monitoring ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Fri Aug 25 14:06:22 2000
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:03:21 -0700
From: Roy <garlic@garlic.com>
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Since the NRIC is contacting industry groups, it seems to me that they should
contact NANOG! Perhaps NRIC will present at the next meeting?
Robert Cannon wrote:
> My understanding from reading the NRIC material is that the outage reporting
> is ISP oriented. Ironically, when looking for an example of a cause of an
> outage, NRIC listed a failure in the DNS server.
>
> I can give you the name of the contact person from the NRIC focus group if
> you would like. She is out of ATT.
>
> Hopefully at NANOG Wash DC I will have more answers for you.
>
> -B
>
> >>> Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> 08/24/00 04:24PM >>>
>
> Is this only for ISPs? There have been two failures involving root/GTLD
> servers in the last month. Although NSI posted some messages about what
> they had done, I never saw any explaination about why it happened.
>
> g.root-servers.net had problems transferring or loading zones. It also
> returned NXDOMAIN instead of dropping out of the DNS system during its
> problems. Why did this happen?
>
> Again this week, problems with various root servers. NSI has said it
> will keep us advised. But other folks have suggested NSI can't really
> say what happened for fear of upsetting folks like DISA. If NSI can't
> report about root server activities who can? There is the DNS Root Server
> System Advisory Committee. But it isn't really set up to investigate
> incidents or provide public reporting on the activities of the root servers.
>
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