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Millions of .de Domains Unreachable For Hours

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wo-ist-jones.de dept.

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."

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  1. DNSSEC to blame.... by mseeger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  2. Re:Some more details about the outage by mseeger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The DE-NIC finallly spoke out. If you don't speak german, the statement doesn't contain anything that wasn't already well known: Yes, there was an problem starting at about 13:00 and it was fixed around 15:45.