Army DNS ROOT Server Down For 18+ Hours

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."

Comments

Re:There are 12 others - pick one.

[Fumus]

From the small to the great the world is online now and even an hour's outage of the internet would be a disaster comparable in economic and social cost to the complete destruction of a small city somewhere in the world.

And I would gladly watch it all crash and burn.

Re:So the Internet worked as it should...

[NekSnappa]

I'm upset that the Jaguar XKRs aren't doing well at Prtite LeMans, and the Europeans seem to be making a comeback at the Ryder Cup.