[90276] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams)
Fri May 12 19:15:59 2006
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: "Todd Vierling" <tv@pobox.com>,
"Jim Popovitch" <jimpop@yahoo.com>, nanog@nanog.org,
brunner@nic-naa.net
In-reply-to: <17509.4248.584575.383386@world.std.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 19:11:42 -0400
From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
...
> use. Hunt down "BU joins the internet", a typo in our initial update
> tickled a bug in the bsd hosttable program which brought down about
> 2/3 of the internet (yes, down.) I can't say I'm proud of that, but
> it's kind of hard to forget.
i overflowed the core routers, summer '88. That was good for a flurry
of chitchat between bbn (noc) and sri (nic) one afternoon.
ebw