g.root-servers.net - U.S. DoD Network Information Center

Sun Jan 26 18:04:34 UTC 2003

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Jack Bates wrote:

> 
> From: "Sean Donelan"
> 
> > So does anyone know what happened to the US DOD NIC during this event?
> > They provide one of the root servers, but they disappeared off the net
> > for much of this event.
> >
> 
> My personal opinion, though it doesn't account for much, is that they were
> testing out the new ways one can serve DNS from a MS-SQL database. Then
> again, they could just be smart and be paranoid. If I had a private network
> where security was required to be high, I'd have pulled the plug until the
> storm was over. Why take chances?

eh? 

You are host to one of the Internet's root DNS servers and you pull the plug
when things go a bit hairy on you.

Even for a hosting company I'd not be happy if I was a customer and they
shutdown the whole of their Internet access because of some problem like this!

Steve