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DNS timeline
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 01:40:03 -0500 (EST)
Since it appears DNS goofiness is about to return, I put together a timeline of significant events that affected DNS service technically over the last 20 years. http://www.donelan.com/dnstimeline.html In comparison with other utilities, DNS performs about average. AT&T's telephone network had two major nationewide failures in the last 20 years. Several electrical grids have failed, including the grid covering the Western States due to a single tall tree. All the root servers have been down once, and there have been a couple of instances of zone files being truncated in the last 20 years. Not perfect, but amazingly robust for a technology operated by humans.
Current thread:
- DNS timeline Sean Donelan (Feb 24)
- Re: DNS timeline Patrick (Feb 25)
- Re: DNS timeline Lucy E. Lynch (Feb 25)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: DNS timeline Simon Higgs (Feb 25)
- Re: DNS timeline David Conrad (Feb 26)
- Re: DNS timeline Simon Higgs (Feb 27)
- Re: DNS timeline David Conrad (Feb 28)
- Re: DNS timeline David Conrad (Feb 26)
- Re: DNS timeline Patrick (Feb 25)