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Millions of .de Domains Unreachable For Hours
An anonymous reader writes "Due to an error on behalf of DENIC, the German DNS registrar for second-level .de domains, millions of .de domains fell over the edge (auf Deutsch) of the Internet today. The cause of this GAU (GröYter anzunehmender Unfall = maximum credible accident) is still unknown, as DENIC officials haven't answered any questions from journalists at the time of writing."
Domains and DENIC officials were both unavailable, the only difference is that officials will be unavailable a bit longer...i bet it sucked to be them today.
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Tell me, what is the point of putting a warning aimed at people who don't speak German in German??
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The word is "Größter" though.
The problem did not affect all domains and it did not affect all nameservers for the german TLD. The nameservers which are reached through "c.de.net" (== c.nic.de) and "s.de.net" (== s.nic.de) more or less worked fine during the outage. Only for a short period of time they did not answer. The other nameservers for .de however lost the knowledge of most domains under the TLD and only returned NS-records for the domain names starting with a digit or with the letter a to e. So for example br-online.de worked fine, while web.de did not. The really bad part is, that the affected nameservers did not refrain to answer but instead answered with NXDOMAIN. So they told that they do not have a record for the query, which in turn effects to "This domain does not exist". Unfortunately such negative answers are cached for a time determined by the authorative nameserver. DENIC's nameserver tell clients to cache this result for 7200 seconds, therefore the outage continued to make problems for up to two hours after the problem was fixed, unless the DNS caches were cleared.
One more thing to notice: Some sites claim that four of the six nameservers for .de were affected because six hostnames are listed as nameservers for .de and as i told, two of them did work. However both a.nic.de and z.nic.de resolv to anycast IPs which will be routed to a number of different servers around the world depending on your own location. So it are more than six servers in total.
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Meanwhile I'm sure Hitler will be happy to discuss the situation on youtube.
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Here is the response I found on the denic.de site : http://www.denic.de/typo3temp/pics/i_64bbbffdb3.jpg
Du.de, where's my si.te?
According to my informations (DFN NOC) the problems resulted from a botched experiment with DNSSEC. Unluckily the DE-NIC is still silent about the incident.
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The Association of German Spammers has already claimed billions of dollars in losses due to the outage. The association chairman claims: "We need a rescue package to recover our losses". Billions of SPAM emails to valid accounts were flagged as "does not exist". Using the same calculations as the music industry the rescue package is estimated to exceed 50 billion euros to recover todays losses.
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Also, "GAU" is probably better translated as "worst-case scenario".
We call that a clusterfuck in these here parts.
GröYter, yes, that is Größter or where ß, which is not beta, is not available, Grösster.
What is a “<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.de” domain? And why are there millions of them?
Or is that just another epic failure of someone using a WYSIYFH (what you see is you failing hard) interface, caused by the idiocy that is “K.I.S.S.”?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Once upon a time, the DE-NIC was very respected in the german internet community. But several things happened lately, that let the trust erode. There were internal power struggles, the rising influence of domain traders inside the DE-NIC and the surprising distribution of the two-letter-domain-rush (25% of all domains ending in the hands of a single person). Perhaps this outage will be a wakeup call. If we only count the time spent on customers calling the hotline, the damage for my company is several thousand dollars.
CU, Martin
What is a “<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.de” domain? And why are there millions of them?
It's just Slash demonstrating that it speaks neither Unicode nor HTML.
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you mean "Keep it simple, stupid"?
the KISS principle is perhaps one of the greatest principles in engineering, and frequently keeps people's minds grounded in the deliverables, and prevents them from spinning out of control into overly complex solutions, which are in fact the source of most software bugs, not the solution to them
if this is the principle you are referring to, i don't know where the source of your animosity to it lies, nor why it has anything to do with this particular subject matter
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Looks like they put a DMCA takedown notice on the entire country.
from their webside: http://www.denic.de/typo3temp/pics/i_64bbbffdb3.jpg
GröYter, yes, that is Größter or where ß, which is not beta, is not available, Grösster.
Or when neither "ö" nor "ß" are available, "Groesster" would also be acceptable.
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