[55254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: g.root-servers.net - U.S. DoD Network Information Center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Sat Jan 25 23:13:11 2003
From: "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:38:57 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
From: "Sean Donelan"
> So does anyone know what happened to the US DOD NIC during this event?
> They provide one of the root servers, but they disappeared off the net
> for much of this event.
>
My personal opinion, though it doesn't account for much, is that they were
testing out the new ways one can serve DNS from a MS-SQL database. Then
again, they could just be smart and be paranoid. If I had a private network
where security was required to be high, I'd have pulled the plug until the
storm was over. Why take chances?
Jack Bates
BrightNet Oklahoma
