[80674] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: google.com outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon May 9 01:49:03 2005
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 09 May 2005 05:46:32 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20050507.215054.28795.134382@webmail18.lax.untd.com>
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> -- 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.
not to me. RFC 1535 is VERY widely deployed, perhaps even universally so.
--
Paul Vixie
