google.com outage?

Paul Vixie vixie at vix.com
Mon May 9 05:46:32 UTC 2005


> -- Chris Keladis <chris at cmc.optus.net.au> wrote:
> 
> Just a guess, but perhaps with www.google.com returning NXDOMAIN the 
> gethostby* functions tried variations and ended up resolving sites like 
> www.google.com.net which inadvertantly sent people to the spoof site.
> 
> Seems plausible to me, anyway.

not to me.  RFC 1535 is VERY widely deployed, perhaps even universally so.
-- 
Paul Vixie



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