[7518] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: root server update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Qarin Van Brink)
Fri Feb 14 15:08:50 1997
From: queue@echo.com (Qarin Van Brink)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:35:22 +0000
In-Reply-To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
"Re: root server update" (Feb 14, 11:20)
To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush), queue@echo.echo.com (Qarin Van Brink)
Cc: d-nordlund@ukans.edu, nanog@merit.edu
hm. i count 10% of initial queries failing with a domain doesn't exist
error, and that information then being cached so subsequent queries
always fail, as being, as i said, a rather major problem. earthshaking,
no; major, yes. many servers, in this instance, helps, but because the
problem manifested itself as a root server not being *down*, but
returning actually false information, the redundancy of the root
servers meant that the odds were lower of failure, not that failure was
avoided. a lot of mail was bouncing ("host unknown", on valid hosts),
and a lot of queries were failing.
am i "soooo important"? no. and i can flush my nameserver's cache to
take care of a 1 in 10 problem looking up a site i'm trying to look up.
but my users, and yours, are so important.
and, happily, mr. fields, on his way to bed in maryland last night,
wasn't so condescending.
-Qarin Van Brink
queue@scruz.net
On Feb 14, 11:20, Randy Bush wrote:
} Subject: Re: root server update
} > what did you do to try to fix or notify someone of this (rather major)
} > problem?
}
} major? funny, but i thought that was why we had many servers.
}
} and, not realizing it was a major earthshaking event, i sent email. silly
} me.
}
} randy
}-- End of excerpt from Randy Bush
