The good old days, or was it (DNS reliablity)
Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Mon Nov 19 06:46:14 UTC 2001
Does anyone have any archives between 1985 and 1991?
We've stumbled a lot to reach where we are. Of course, one
reason the net survives is parnoid people worry about this stuff.
1985 DARPA/DCA implements RFC 920, 921 (USC-ISI/SRI-NIC)
15 Mar 1985 Symbolics.COM registered (first DNS name, excluding
.ARPA transition names)
[????archives????]
1 May 1991 DDN NIC contract transfered from SRI International to GSI
26 Mar 1992 Bogus "." contamination moevax.edu.tw (and many more for
several years)
1 Jun 1992 Caching-only name server (BIND) hangs when forwarders
unreachable
1993 Slow connections/packet loss to NIC.DDN.MIL result in many
different distribution problems (also CIX/ANS peering
battles). Report consistent 50%+ packet loss to NIC.DDN.MIL
root name server.
Apr 1993 NS.INTERNIC.NET added to hints file
NSI/GSI Internet connection upgraded from 56K to T1
21 Apr 1993 DNS/UDP packet size limit exceeded
31 Aug 1993 Bellovin suggests using pseudo-host root.net to pack server
list
3 Apr 1994 AOS.BRL.MIL renamed AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL (server name mismatch)
19 Apr 1994 Sprint employee registers the domain name MCI.NET (first
namejacking?)
9 May 1994 KAVA.NISC.SRI.COM removed as a root name server
9 Jun 1994 NS.ISI.EDU added as a root name server
18 Jul 1994 Bogus in-addr.arpa SOA/NS disrupts networks
28 Aug 1994 Malformed PTR entry in in-addr.arpa zone disrupts most root
name servers
2 Sep 1994 NS.ISC.ORG added as a root name server
7 Oct 1994 C.NYSER.NET changed to C.PSI.NET
17 Oct 1994 Bogus NS records for COM zone polluting servers
15 Feb 1995 Recursion turned off on the last root name server with it
enabled
4 Aug 1995 root-servers.net introduced into root zone
ns.nasa.gov changed ip addresses
ns.isc.org uses net 39 experiment address
1 Sep 1995 ns.internic.net changed to a.root-servers.net (last
root-servers.net change)
13 Sep 1995 Leaked: NSI begins fee-based DNS registration Sep 18 1995
16 Nov 1995 f.root-servers.net address change at the end of net 39
experiment
May 1996 Guardian announced to protect names and server information
23 Jul 1996 g.root-servers.net root zone expired, bogus responses
22 Aug 1996 Bind/malformed record problems ".com<tab>com" (believed to be
malicious)
8 Nov 1996 Bogus address for ns.uu.net (secondary name server for many
other domains)
22 Jan 1997 root only root name servers J and K added
14 Feb 1997 h.root-servers.net lost COM zone
28 Feb 1997 root only root name servers L and M added
12 Apr 1997 h.root-servers.net lost COM zone (again)
19 May 1997 k.root-servers.net moved to London LINX managed by RIPE/CC
(first non-US root)
26 Jun 1997 i.root-servers.net lost COM zone
13 Jul 1997 Alternic corrupts DNS caches redirecting www.internic.net
traffic
17 Jul 1997 Error during the generation of COM and NET zones at NSI
truncates information
22 Aug 1997 m.root-servers.net moved to Japan managed by WIDE Project
11 Nov 1998 [fjk].gtld-servers.net giving NXDOMAIN response to queries
for COM zone f.root-servers.net lame due to ISP problems
at NSI
2 Jul 1999 NSI web site redirected to CORE with glue record
23 Aug 2000 Timing bug causes missing NS records for COM zone on
a.root-servers.net
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