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."

Comments

Re:auf Deutsch?

[tomhudson]

How hard is it to figure out this?

Denic Probleme mit den .de-Rootservern? (Update 2)

Derzeit lassen sich viele .de-Domains nicht auflösen. Schuld daran könnten Probleme auf Seiten der Denic sein, die die Rootserver für die Top-Level-Domain .de betreibt. Mittlerweile ist das Problem behoben.

Problems with the root .de name server. Of course, it's funnier if you don't know that "die" is "the" in german: "die die Rootserver für die Top-Level-Domain .de" so in germglish it becomes "die, die, tld .de rootserver" OMG terrorist threat!

Re:auf Deutsch?

[Anonymous Coward]

Unicode on slashdot? UNPOSSIBLE

DENIC officials haven't answered any questions

[Anonymous Coward]

Meanwhile I'm sure Hitler will be happy to discuss the situation on youtube.

"Official" response

[Anonymous Coward]

Here is the response I found on the denic.de site : http://www.denic.de/typo3temp/pics/i_64bbbffdb3.jpg

Schon.

[CorporateSuit]

Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?"
Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English."
Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?"
Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war."

Constantin Films/YouTube/Der Untergang

[BenJeremy]

Looks like they put a DMCA takedown notice on the entire country.

...I will forever wonder what Hitler would say about this.

What happened to the Germany water website?

[InvisibleSoul]

.de nile of service!