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IP: Four of the 13 root servers used by Network Solutions
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:02:53 -0400
Four of the 13 root servers used by Network Solutions to manage global Internet traffic partially failed for a brief period Wednesday night due to technical difficulties. The computers -- one in Tokyo, one in California and two in Virginia -- failed to serve requests for links to Web sites ending in ".com" suffix for a little over an hour. Web addresses ending in other suffixes were unaffected. While an e-mail distributed Wednesday by Network Solutions VP Mark Rippe described the event as "a *MAJOR, MAJOR* incident", an NSI spokesman later insisted the failure was simply "a minor hiccup invisible to end users." Minor hiccup indeed. The last time something like this happened, July of 1997, it was seven root servers that failed, disrupting much of the traffic on the Net for a few hours.
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