Army DNS ROOT Server Down For 18+ Hours

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 2, 2010 @01:30AM from the inter-arma-enim-silent-tubulis dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The H-Root server, operated by the US Army Research Lab, spent 18 hours out of the last 48 being a void. Both the RIPE's DNSMON and the h.root-servers.org site show this. How, in this day and age of network engineering, can we even entertain one of the thirteen root servers being unavailable for so long? I mean, the US army doesn't even seem to make the effort to deploy more sites. Look at the other root operators who don't have the backing of the US government money machine. Many of them seem to be able to deploy redundant instances. Even the much-maligned ICANN seems to have managed deploying 11 sites. All these root operators that have only one site need a good swift kick, or maybe they should pass the responsibility to others who are more committed to ensuring the Internet's stability."

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Re:Was it the monitoring system? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-02 06:12 · Score: 5, Informative

https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2010-October/006142.html
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> FYI, the H root server is currently experiencing an outage
> due to a SONET ring outage possibly caused by flooding from
> the tropical storm on the east coast. No estimated repair time.
H root returned to service at 12:30 UTC today. Fiber cut due to downed
utility poles. Repair was delayed due to high water.