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Re: a.root-servers.net power issue (why there are 13)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Fri Jun 15 00:04:56 2001

Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:04:21 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
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Once upon a time, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> said:
> In general, the root-server design is robust; and even if
> one root-server completely failed, the affect would be
> minor for several days.

Yep, just ask people whose networks are connected only to C&W about
getting to c.root-servers.net last week. :-)
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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