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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.

http://www.cymru.com/DNS/dns.html

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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?

Jack Bates
BrightNet Oklahoma

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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

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> 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!

Depends on the nature of that network. If it was just root DNS servers, I
would agree with you. However, unless they are feeding those servers with
MS-SQL databases, one might guess that there was something more to it.
Honestly, I doubt the DoD will let anyone know why. :slight_smile: This is another BoA
situation. Lack of information.

Jack Bates
BrightNet Oklahoma

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Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:38:57 -0600
From: Jack Bates

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?

Not exactly in tune with RFC2870.

Eddy