[33794] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Name server problems? or did Microsoft forget to pay their
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ken harris.)
Wed Jan 24 11:54:58 2001
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:51:28 -0800 (PST)
From: "ken harris." <ken@boii.com>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> The database that includes this information is called a DNS Table. On
> Saturday, MyDomain.com accidentally released a DNS table to the world
> that was full of errors, Lau said. The mistakes meant a small fraction of
> Web surfers trying to visit Yahoo.com were instead sent to an IP address
> inside MyDomains.com.
>
> Reminds me of Eugene Kashpureff...
hardly.
the issue with mydomain.com is that certain *nix's have
it listed in /etc/resolv.conf (or the specific equivalent)
as an example although it's commented out. your joe-intelligent
administrator apparently decided to uncomment it.
to my knowledge, mydomain.com didn't do anything illegal,
where as eugene decided to get zerocool.
actually, i find it slightly funny.
-ken harris
toronto, canada
