[52925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Testing root server down code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Oct 23 13:34:47 2002
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:34:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
The last time all the root servers were down was June 28 1985. On June 29
1985 there was a flurry of messages about adding root server down code to
the various DNS implementations of the day. Apparently, some of the
software had a poor response to all root servers being unreachable, and
spun out of control.
Has anyone tested modern DNS code (Microsoft and BIND to name two) for
this condition recently? I haven't, hence my question.
