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Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov

Posted by samzenpus on from the did-you-need-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Network World reader whose brother works for a California state agency forwarded me an e-mail alert that his brother received: "The Department of Technology Services (DTS) has notified us that the Federal Government inadvertently deleted the CA.GOV domain. As the evening progresses you may experience an impact in your ability to access some Web sites and exchange e-mail. DTS is working with their federal counterparts to restore service as quickly as possible but service may not be restored until tomorrow morning.""

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  1. Simple to fix? by jfroot · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can they not just:

    # scp bkuser@backupserver:/etc/bind/zones/gov.ca.zonefile /etc/bind/zones
    # service named reload

    voila!

    1. Re:Simple to fix? by Achromatic1978 · · Score: 4, Informative

      How do you "route" a domain name? Sure you can point the authoritive NS's to some black hole, but that's easily enough reversed. DNS changes don't 'propagate' upstream. They can be cached downstream, but nothing irrevocable, and there's no route to propagate. "ca.gov" is not a AS network.

  2. Re:Sorry by statemachine · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's easy to delete a domain. Delete the zone file on the primary name server and reload the daemon. That's only two steps, and it would really ruin your day if you didn't keep a backup on hand. Why would you think it's not hard to do?

  3. It's back... by rdwald · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is it just me, or does http://www.ca.gov/ still work? I mean, I just went there and got a page reading "Welcome to the State of California." I guess this problem's already been resolved.

  4. Re:Terrorists .... by Thaelon · · Score: 2, Informative

    The term you're looking for is weaponized stupidity. Remember it. Use it. Enjoy it.

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    Question everything