[45841] in North American Network Operators' Group
DNS timeline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Feb 25 01:40:37 2002
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 01:40:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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Since it appears DNS goofiness is about to return, I put together
a timeline of significant events that affected DNS service technically
over the last 20 years.
http://www.donelan.com/dnstimeline.html
In comparison with other utilities, DNS performs about average. AT&T's
telephone network had two major nationewide failures in the last 20 years.
Several electrical grids have failed, including the grid covering the
Western States due to a single tall tree. All the root servers have been
down once, and there have been a couple of instances of zone files being
truncated in the last 20 years. Not perfect, but amazingly robust for a
technology operated by humans.
