UK Web Press coverage of the NSI root outage
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us
Mon Jul 21 17:38:37 UTC 1997
The text of a website article pointed out to the list last week was:
> > > A series of major systems failures in the week ending July 18 have
> > > called Internet security and robustness into question. Problems
> > > started over the weekend of July 12 and 13 when a hacker is
> > > believed to have penetrated the Internet's root nameserver, causing
> > > severe disruption of the entire Domain Name system. E.mail messages
> > > to .com and .net and attempts to access .com and .net sites
> > > received 'unresolvable address' or 'host unreachable' responses.
I wrote these folks a note, sufficiently vitriolic that I'm almost
embarrased to include it here, pointing out that perhaps that article
could have used a _bit_ more research... and got this reply:
On Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 10:26:38AM +0000, MMP wrote:
> When an editor returns from vacation, there's always one major error
> to deal with. I guess the InterNIC news item is my problem. I have
> spoken with the responsible news writer and will be removing the
> item from our server.
<chuckle>
> Quality journalism is so often enhanced by quality readership
Nicely done. I'm carboning your response to the NANOG mailing list,
where the original pointer was raised.
> Thanks for your letter
No problem.
> Andrew Craig
> Editor
> --
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> Editor Fax: +44 (0)1273 380043
> Internet IT Informer Email: andrew-craig at mmp.co.uk
> http://www.mmp.co.uk/mmp
Cheers,
-- jra
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