Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 01:51:32 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: dbader@umiacs.umd.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: resolv and 2.2 (-stable) Message-ID: <199707220051.BAA01521@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jul 1997 15:17:07 EDT." <199707171917.PAA06865@eve.umiacs.umd.edu>
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> Hi, > > I'm having a nameserver problem with 2.2-stable: My machine has been [.....] The following was recently posted to demon.announce: : Subject: Root Name Servers : Newsgroups: demon.announce,cityscp.announce : Followup-To: demon.service : Reply-To: helpdesk@demon.net : Date: 17 Jul 97 18:08:14 GMT : Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. : From: malcolm@muir-et2.staff.demon.net (Malcolm Muir) : : Earlier today, as noted in status, seven of the eight highest level : (ROOT) Name Servers for the internet, on which all users ultimately : depend, lost their information for the .net and .com domains. : : The effect of this is that the whole internet slowly looses any knowledge : of the affected domains as the various caches around the internet time : out and expire the date. Eventually all services (connectivity, email, : www etc.) associated with such domains fail. : : Symptons would be error messages like "host not found" or in some : cases emails would be returned back to the sender. : : At the time of writing the Root Name Servers appear to be returning to : normal, however there could be 'knock-on' effects for some time. : : At present we have no idea of why this occurred, however it is totally : outside the control of Demon Internet. : : Malcolm Muir : Demon Internet : : -- : Malcolm S. Muir Demon Internet Ltd. : Sunderland 322 Regents Park Road : England London N3 2QQ > Thanks for any help, > david > > David A. Bader, Ph.D. Office: 301-405-6755 > Institute for Advanced Computer Studies FAX: 301-314-9658 > A.V. Williams Building Internet: dbader@umiacs.umd.edu > University of Maryland WWW: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~dbader > College Park, MD 20742 > -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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