was i asleep when the gtld servers had the worse problem today?

Fri Nov 13 12:21:36 UTC 1998

> 1. there is definitely some confusion here.  my f (root-servers.net) was
>    lame (which is not fatal to resolvers who query it).  NSI's f (gtld-
>    servers.net) was insane (which was fatal to resolvers who queried it.)

Aren't NSI's nameservers running bind?  If not, then that's scary.
If so, then why wouldn't they also become lame rather than insane?

Cheers,
Ray