[55278] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: g.root-servers.net - U.S. DoD Network Information Center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Sun Jan 26 13:06:59 2003
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 18:04:34 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <00e801c2c4ec$75963760$cef44341@jackdell>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
>
> 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?
eh?
You are host to one of the Internet's root DNS servers and you pull the plug
when things go a bit hairy on you.
Even for a hosting company I'd not be happy if I was a customer and they
shutdown the whole of their Internet access because of some problem like this!
Steve
