On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
From: "Sean Donelan"
So does anyone know what happened to the US DOD NIC during this event? They provide one of the root servers, but they disappeared off the net for much of this event.
My personal opinion, though it doesn't account for much, is that they were testing out the new ways one can serve DNS from a MS-SQL database. Then again, they could just be smart and be paranoid. If I had a private network where security was required to be high, I'd have pulled the plug until the storm was over. Why take chances?
eh? You are host to one of the Internet's root DNS servers and you pull the plug when things go a bit hairy on you. Even for a hosting company I'd not be happy if I was a customer and they shutdown the whole of their Internet access because of some problem like this! Steve