[dns-operations] H root outage (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Chris Thompson]

On Oct 3 2010, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 11:33:29AM -0400,
> Kash, Howard (Civ, ARL/CISD) <howard.kash at us.army.mil> wrote 
> a message of 148 lines which said:
>
>> H root returned to service at 12:30 UTC today. 
>
>People who like to read Slashdot b...s..t on sundays may enjoy:
>
>http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/02/1233235/Army-DNS-ROOT-Server-Down-For-18-Hours

A bit unfair on the US Military, although I admit that my initial thought
about this incident was "if they are going to have only a single instance,
why don't they move it from a coastal plain to Cheyenne Mountain?".

But the *other* remaining unicast root server (B, belonging to ISI) is,
according to the map at http://www.root-servers.org/ , now located on
a raft off the West African coast... :-)

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