Just got on this thing (perhaps very belatedly) - root server trouble?

Tue Feb 18 22:32:43 UTC 1997

> 
> From: Karl Denninger  <karl at Mcs.Net>
> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:29:33 -0600 (CST)
> > About 30% of the nameservers which supposedly 
> > are authoritative for .COM domains are either:
> > 	1)	Non-existant (they don't resolve to an IP address)
> > 	2)	Unreachable
> > or	3)	Don't know what "." is (!) 
> 
> This might say more about the status of Internet reachability at a 
> particular point time and/or from a particular place in the Internet.
> 
> This exercise doesn't seem like particularly good science...
> 
> -tjs

Give me a break.   If half the network wasn't reachable we wouldn't be in
business.

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