Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 3, 2007 @12:16PM 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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Re:Simple to fix? by cez · 2007-10-03 13:37 · Score: 1, Troll

Depends on the point of entry into where the domain is hosted. "Sure you can point the authoritive NS's to some black hole", as the hacker did to point them to porn, goatse is a black hole. But seeing as how they took out more than just web servers, static routes could be propagated through the arp tables of core routers causing oblivion to where the Name Servers results are sending requests...

I don't know exactly how what happened, but obviously they didn't handle it well.

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