[dns-operations] H root outage (UNCLASSIFIED)

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 10:43:33PM +0100, Chris Thompson wrote:
> 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... :-)
> 
> -- 
> Chris Thompson               University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> Email: cet1 at ucs.cam.ac.uk    New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QH,
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	my - seems a bit wonky to me.

	there are only two sites not anycasting? 
	B is now on a raft?


	doesn't match w/ my data ... but as usual, on the Internet, YMMV


--bill