Re: Just got on this thing (perhaps very belatedly) - root server trouble?

[Karl Denninger <karl () Mcs Net>]

> From: Karl Denninger  <karl () Mcs Net>
> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:29:33 -0600 (CST)
> > About 30% of the nameservers which supposedly 
> > are authoritative for .COM domains are either:
> >     1)      Non-existant (they don't resolve to an IP address)
> >     2)      Unreachable
> > or  3)      Don't know what "." is (!) 
>
> This might say more about the status of Internet reachability at a 
> particular point time and/or from a particular place in the Internet.
>
> This exercise doesn't seem like particularly good science...
>
> -tjs

Give me a break.   If half the network wasn't reachable we wouldn't be in
business.

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