[IFWP] Richard Sexton on RootServer fuckup

Richard Sexton of the ORSC sums it up well in his quote commenting on NSI's root-server fuckup: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2608664.html?tag=st.ne.ron.lthd.ni

[IFWP] FOUR OF 13 SERVERS THAT MANAGE WEB TRAFFIC FAILED FOR BRIEF PERIOD

FOUR OF 13 SERVERS THAT MANAGE WEB TRAFFIC FAILED FOR BRIEF PERIOD Issue: Internet Four of the 13 computers that manage global Internet traffic partially failed for a brief period Wednesday night due to a technical glitch. Engineers at Network Solutions, which runs the primary "A" root server

[IFWP] BIND 9 - ALT ROOTS - and twiddle dee dum

Some time ago people here may remember that Dave or Kent (twiddle dee dum and twiddle dee doo) said that the new bind9 DNS server would not support alternate root zones. This concerned me as I had heard rumour some months earlier - probably generated by twiddle dee or twiddle do - that the same