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Entire .SE TLD Drops Off the Internet

Posted by timothy on from the absolut-typo dept.

Icemaann writes "Pingdom and Network World are reporting that the SE tld dropped off the internet yesterday due to a bug in the script that generates the SE zone file. The SE tld has close to one million domains that all went down due to missing the trailing dot in the SE zone file. Some caching nameservers may still be returning invalid DNS responses for 24 hours."

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  1. TPB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    They are going to extremes in Sweden to get thepiratebay.org off the internet!

    1. Re:TPB by KevinKnSC · · Score: 3, Funny

      It looks like someone messed up the summary. I'm pretty sure it should be:

      Peengdum und Netvurk Vurld ere-a repurteeng thet zee SE tld drupped ooffff zee internet yesterdey dooe-a tu a boog in zee screept thet generetes zee SE zune-a feele-a. Zee SE tld hes cluse-a tu oone-a meelliun dumeeens thet ell vent doon dooe-a tu meessing zee treeeling dut in zee SE zune-a feele-a. Sume-a cecheeng nemeserfers mey steell be-a retoorneeng infeleed DNS respunses fur 24 huoors.

  2. There goes my favorite web site ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Goat.se

    1. Re:There goes my favorite web site ! by Tetsujin · · Score: 2, Funny

      Goat.se

      Huh... that's interesting. I've never heard of that one before... I think, though, that based on your recommendation I'll share the link with the rest of the office. I've seen a lot of your posts here in Slashdot, Anonymous Coward, and all the ones I've seen have been pretty highly rated, so I'm guessing you wouldn't link me to a website that wasn't interesting.

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    2. Re:There goes my favorite web site ! by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 2, Funny

      Goat.se

      Arrgh... the horror... http://goat.se/cx You'll want to claw your eyes out!

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  3. Re:No big deal by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Funny

    The downtime lasted 30 minutes, and most domains were probably cached by nameservers anyway.

    I once viddied an animated documentary about a small town in Colorado that lost the internet for 22 minutes. It was not pretty. Our hearts and minds go out to you, people of Sweden. I cannot even fathom what that would be like ... I hope the looting and rioting has died down with the restoration of the internet.

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  4. So I guess it's... by 6Yankee · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...borked!

  5. somewhere in sweden: by nimbius · · Score: 2, Funny

    an admin has popped back from lunch and asked, "hey guys did someone turn my computer off while i was gone? there was a file i was working on......"

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  6. Re:change control / management, anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sweden porn?

    IKEA instruction manuals?

  7. Re:unless you are swedish by CannonballHead · · Score: 2, Funny

    If a packet gets through, great. If not, well, it's not the end of the world.

    Sounds like a lot of cities' approaches to freeway systems/traffic control.

  8. Re:No big deal by CorporateSuit · · Score: 4, Funny

    The downtime lasted 30 minutes, and most domains were probably cached by nameservers anyway.

    I didn't notice the DNS freak out, but I did notice the internet's smug meter had dropped about 30%.

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  9. Re:DNS is the problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Regedit32.exe

  10. Re:change control / management, anyone? by Mathness · · Score: 4, Funny

    I seriously hope someone is fired or loses a contract over this.

    You'll be happy to know that the person responsible have been found. The person in question was described as having unusual bushy eyebrows and speaking in a thick Swedish accent. His last comment about the incident, before being dragged away, was "bork bork bork".

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  11. Re:unless you are swedish by Gilmoure · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cache your porn, folks. Just sayin'.

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  12. Re:No big deal by JustOK · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you my motherboard?

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  13. There's møre to Sweden than .se by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yer?

    See the løveli lakes

    The wonderful telephøne system

    And mani interesting furry animals

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    1. Re:There's møre to Sweden than .se by rainmaestro · · Score: 4, Funny

      We apologise for the fault in the previous post. Those responsible have been sacked.

    2. Re:There's møre to Sweden than .se by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      We apologise again for the fault in the previous post. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.

  14. Re:There goes my favorite web site ! [Goat...] by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't worry, there's plenty of mirrors......unfortunately.

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  15. Re:No big deal by CorporateSuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    DNS is very simple, but it's just as prone to human error as anything else.

    Are you kidding? I've been programming DNS for a long time, and if theirs one thing I learned, its that programmers like me don't make errors.

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  16. Re:No big deal by pyrrhonist · · Score: 4, Funny

    but I did notice the internet's smug meter had dropped about 30%.

    Norwegian detected.

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