Re: How relable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged Network Threat)

["W.D.McKinney" <dee () akwireless net>]

Thanks for pointing that out. That was the wrong way to describe my standpoint. Frequent changes in DNS across the 
board, including edge servers 
make connections seem non-working, when in reality it is a mis-configured DNS zone. So whether 

Dee


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Abley [mailto:jabley () isc org]
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:57 AM
> To: 'W.D.McKinney'
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: How reliable does the Internet need to be? (Was: Re: Converged  Network Threat)
>
>
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> On 26 Feb 2004, at 08:46, W.D.McKinney wrote:
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> > I think the Internet is doing pretty well save some IOS code problems 
> > from time to time, and the typical root server hicups.
>
> I'm interested to know what you mean by "typical root server hicups". 
> I'm trying to think of an incident which left the Internet generally 
> unable to receive answers to queries on the root zone, but I can't 
> think of one.
>
> By "typical", do you mean "non-existent"?
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>
> Joe