randy@psg.COM (Randy Bush) writes:
University of Hawaii' external data services were effected (Primary and Secondary DNS were not functional).
hmmmmm. wonder how that could hapen.
I don't track Hawaii that closely anymore since Hawaii Public dropped DRA for another vendor. But Hawaii was always the most unusual circuit in our network. I never did figure out why, but the 'landing point' for the Hawaii state government circuit was Chicago, Illinois. It appears Hawaii.EDU at least has arranged for an off-island backup of its DNS. There may have been some other configuration problem, but at first glance Hawaii.EDU and Hawaii.NET had a chance of keeping its DNS functioning. Hawaii.GOV's NS records have a slight problem, which may have killed it when connectivity was lost. And things like HI.US would have been completely dead. The US-domain sucks in many states, so that's not too unusual. DRA made a standing offer to the US-domain administrator to act as one of the primary or secondary servers for any LIB.xx.US. AT&T may handle the physical circuits, but the Internet service for the University of Hawaii is handled by UUNET. So there are lots of different people you can ask why the redundancy failed, or if it was ever present. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation