Finally -- somebody that gets it. No offense to others who didn't feel like posting... As dissapointed as I am by the level of discussion about this topic in Slashdot, I'm thankful that it's here! I tried a search for DNS and DNS problems on Google news this morning and didn't come up with any stories, then tried Slashdot. And viola!! I wasn't going crazy at 11:30p PDT last night, the Net routing was... having problems.
DNS service to wide swaths of the net was down/unreliable. I had to try a mix of different nameservers to get to sites(work, personal mail, etc...). Thankfully, I was too tired to worry about my clients and hoped it would all be solved by morning.
Yay.
But this event does underline a topic seen on Slashdot(and other esteemed zines) many times before -- the fragility of the Internet. Not even close to bulletproof.
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Finally -- somebody that gets it. No offense to others who didn't feel like posting... As dissapointed as I am by the level of discussion about this topic in Slashdot, I'm thankful that it's here! I tried a search for DNS and DNS problems on Google news this morning and didn't come up with any stories, then tried Slashdot. And viola!! I wasn't going crazy at 11:30p PDT last night, the Net routing was... having problems. DNS service to wide swaths of the net was down/unreliable. I had to try a mix of different nameservers to get to sites(work, personal mail, etc...). Thankfully, I was too tired to worry about my clients and hoped it would all be solved by morning. Yay. But this event does underline a topic seen on Slashdot(and other esteemed zines) many times before -- the fragility of the Internet. Not even close to bulletproof.