[80661] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: google.com outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Sun May 8 00:52:47 2005
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 04:50:10 GMT
To: chris@cmc.optus.net.au
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sounds plausable, reasonable.
- ferg
-- Chris Keladis <chris@cmc.optus.net.au> wrote:
Just a guess, but perhaps with www.google.com returning NXDOMAIN the
gethostby* functions tried variations and ended up resolving sites like
www.google.com.net which inadvertantly sent people to the spoof site.
Seems plausible to me, anyway.
Cheers,
Chris.
