All, The problem on h.root-servers.net is fixed. Temporarily lost the COM zone. Situation Normal: All Fixed Up. :-) Thanks for reporting the problem. If you have any more problems, please report them to our operations staff at (410)278-6829 or (410)278-6642. They'll contact me at home. James Fielding <jamesf@arl.mil>
Not knowing what actually went on with the name-servers that have gone haywire today this is only speculation but I wanted to point it out since it may be a possibility. There have been a number of very dissatisfied people about the IAHC domain name debate who have made public treats to enact cyber terrorism. One of the items that they specifically have treatened is to try and kill all the traditional root nameservers so that the public will be forced to use their alternic nameservers. I want to make it clear that I am not making any accusations, but just want to raise the possibility so that those cleaing up won't inadverently loose possible evidence in case this was a deliberate act. ---> Phil
In article <9702140044.aa12117@sparky.arl.mil> you write:
All,
The problem on h.root-servers.net is fixed. Temporarily lost the COM zone. Situation Normal: All Fixed Up. :-) Thanks for reporting the problem. If you have any more problems, please report them to our operations staff at (410)278-6829 or (410)278-6642. They'll contact me at home.
James Fielding <jamesf@arl.mil>
Do you know during what time period that you lost .com? I first noticed it a few minutes after noon EST and the problem seemed to be corrected around midnight EST. It would be nice to know during what time I can attribute yesterday's problems to a root server failing, and not to my DNS servers failing. -- Bob Kupiec GES / WNA http://www.ges.com/~kupiec Princeton, NJ
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Philip J. Nesser II