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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:52:53 +0200 From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net> To: nanog@merit.edu Mail-Followup-To: nanog@merit.edu In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0210231330510.22398-100000@clifden.donelan.com> Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu * sean@donelan.com (Sean Donelan) [Wed 23 Oct 2002, 19:34 CEST]: > 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. I'm certain that a lot of Linux users on dialups have their computers boot up with an `all root servers unreachable' condition present, and that the caching named's on their computers don't spin out of control. To name but one scenario. Regards, -- Niels. -- "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." -- Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914)
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