Re: google.com outage?

[Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>]

> -- Chris Keladis <chris () cmc optus net au> wrote:
>
> Just a guess, but perhaps with www.google.com returning NXDOMAIN the 
> gethostby* functions tried variations and ended up resolving sites like 
> www.google.com.net which inadvertantly sent people to the spoof site.
>
> Seems plausible to me, anyway.

not to me.  RFC 1535 is VERY widely deployed, perhaps even universally so.
-- 
Paul Vixie