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Re: register.com down sev0?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Wed Oct 25 11:01:09 2006

Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:59:28 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610250314100.14987-100000@bawx.pilosoft.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 alex@pilosoft.com wrote:

>
> I'm seeing *.register.com down (including ns*) from everywhere. Just a
> heads-up. Would be interesting to see the RFO for that one, including the
> "why we didn't have any DNS servers offsite or used anycast to at least
> limit amount of damage".

just guessing but:
1) it's 'hard'
2) there is very little 'sla' on anything register.com does ? (no idea,
not a customer)
3) it's 'hard'
4) why? this is the 100yr flood scenario for them? (perhaps)

cost/benefit ... analyze :) It's possible that that 'analyze' part may
change if there is significant fall-out from this event though.

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