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>
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.