[7632] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Just got on this thing (perhaps very belatedly) - root server trouble?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Tue Feb 18 17:51:25 1997
From: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>
To: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:32:43 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199702182219.QAA27497@uh.msc.edu> from "Tim Salo" at Feb 18, 97 04:19:47 pm
>
> From: Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>
> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:29:33 -0600 (CST)
> > About 30% of the nameservers which supposedly
> > are authoritative for .COM domains are either:
> > 1) Non-existant (they don't resolve to an IP address)
> > 2) Unreachable
> > or 3) Don't know what "." is (!)
>
> This might say more about the status of Internet reachability at a
> particular point time and/or from a particular place in the Internet.
>
> This exercise doesn't seem like particularly good science...
>
> -tjs
Give me a break. If half the network wasn't reachable we wouldn't be in
business.
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