Re: google.com outage?

[Simon Waters <simonw () zynet net>]

On Monday 09 May 2005 6:46 am, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > -- Chris Keladis <chris () 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.

I doubt it is universally so, as I think old versions of Windows did something 
similar in the 4.8.3 resolver, and they are still out there. Software takes a 
long time to die.

However a lot of people saw the search engine "sogo" because their browser 
asked for www.google.com.net when it found www.Google.com didn't exist, and 
this is caught by a wildcard (allegedly). Although my quick inspection 
suggests that the DNS for these domains is very badly mangled, BIND 9 does 
somehow manage to get an IP address out of the mess it finds.