Thanks for pointing that out. That was the wrong way to describe my standpoint. Frequent changes in DNS across the board, including edge servers make connections seem non-working, when in reality it is a mis-configured DNS zone. So whether Dee

-----Original Message----- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley@isc.org] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:57 AM To: 'W.D.McKinney' Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: How reliable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat)

On 26 Feb 2004, at 08:46, W.D.McKinney wrote:

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I think the Internet is doing pretty well save some IOS code problems from time to time, and the typical root server hicups.

I'm interested to know what you mean by "typical root server hicups". I'm trying to think of an incident which left the Internet generally unable to receive answers to queries on the root zone, but I can't think of one.

By "typical", do you mean "non-existent"?

Joe