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To: dbader@umiacs.umd.edu
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Subject: Re: resolv and 2.2 (-stable) 
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 01:51:32 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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....