On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:42:26PM -0700, Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com> wrote a message of 25 lines which said:
Not been able to reach my machines in Jamaica. The Kingston Daily Gleaner is back up with text only pages. They report BOTH the primary and secondary submarine cables to Jamaica are severed:
And the name servers are all in Jamaica (IANA lists other name servers but they are in lame delegation) so the TLD disappeared as well. ~ % check_soa jm There is no name server running on ns.jm There was no response from ns.utechjamaica.edu.jm There was no response from ns.utech.edu.jm There was no response from ns.cast.edu.jm RFC 2182, 3.1 : Secondary servers must be placed at both topologically and geographically dispersed locations on the Internet, to minimise the likelihood of a single failure disabling all of them. And it is quite easy to get a remote secondary for a TLD (RIPE-NCC, ISC, EP, AFNIC, etc). Too bad it was not done.