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Re: More federal management of key components of the Internet needed

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Thu Oct 24 11:20:57 2002

Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:19:56 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Mail-Followup-To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200210240812420421.1DE056AB@gateway.wvi.com>; from jeffshul@wvi.com on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:12:42AM -0700
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Once upon a time, Jeff Shultz <jeffshul@wvi.com> said:
> I saw in a forum on ExtremeTech (where they had an article ranting
> about how the internet was almost brought to it's
> knees)http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,646157,00.asp that
> after the root servers attack the gTLD's were attacked as well, taking
> out .biz, .info, and .gov ... can anyone verify if anything happened? 

Well, since the gTLD servers don't serve .biz, .info, or .gov (and those
three zones are served by three different sets of servers), it sounds
bogus.

-- 
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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