[93040] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: register.com down sev0?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Wed Oct 25 21:42:57 2006
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:41:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
To: alex@pilosoft.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0610250314100.14987-100000@bawx.pilosoft.com>
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.
I'll take your word on exhaustively checking every possible
address. BTW, do you mean nameservers down, webservers down, or
something else? Did the Internet break?
> Would be interesting to see the RFO for that one, including the
> "why we didn't have any DNS servers offsite
They colo in more than a half-dozen facilities around the world.
> or used anycast to at least limit amount of damage".
I also have information from a pretty good source that they actually
do quite a bit of anycast.
matto
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