On 7/6/2012 11:06 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:52:56 -0700, Cameron Byrne said:
So insteading of turning the servers off, would it not have been helpful to
have the servers return a "captive portal" type of reponse
Not all DNS lookups are for HTTP.
If you turn the servers off, then everything fails. The user sits there
bewildered and calls his/her ISP to report the Internet is down.
If HTTP was pointed to a server that had a page that said what the
problem is and what to do, it would be a lot better. Any tech support
these users call can diagnose the problem in a few seconds.
