off/other: internet outage (was RE: Love in Space promo single CD)

[Alun Hughes]

It still seems to be a problem as far as I can see. The
"ticketting system" is used by UKERNA, who run the JANET
network for UK higher education. I happened to see this
one because it was forwarded to owners of distribution
lists who use the MAILBASE system in the UK (I run two
lists), but as appropriate they go to my staff (I'm responsible
for this college's academic computing service, amongst
other things).

Alun



At 07:57 17/07/97 CDT, you wrote:
>Alun,
>
>Where did you dig up the info on the ticketting system, and is the
>outage still going on?
>
>Allan.
>
>From:  BOC-L
>Sent:  Thursday, July 17, 1997 6:10 AM
>To:  Grohe, Allan T.;
>Subject:  Re: Love in Space promo single CD
>
>It seems the problem is Internet-wide.
>
>- Alun
>
>
>---JANET Trouble Ticket---
>
>Ticket Number: 970717-3                    Ticket Status: OPEN
>Ticket Type  : Unscheduled                 Ticket Source: JIPS-NOSC
>Ticket Scope : InterNet                    Site/Line    : DNS Root
>Servers
>Ticket Owner : JIPS-NOSC                   Problem Fixer: InterNIC
>Ticket Opened: 970717 10:16 UTC            Problem Start: 970717 10:16
>UTC
>Ticket Update:
>Ticket Closed:                             Problem Ends :
>
>
>Ticket Summary: Root nameserver problems
>
>Problem Description:
>
>There appears to be a problem with many of the root DNS nameservers
>at the moment, which is causing massive disruption to the Internet
>as a whole, particularly on lookups in the .com and .net domains.
> .gov and .edu are reportedly working correctly.
>
>Affected:
>
>DNS lookups, particularly under .com and .net.  The problem first
>started in the early hours of this morning.
>
>
>Actions:
>
>cziadar 970717 10:22 UTC
>The InterNIC are aware of the problem, and are reportedly regenerating
>zone files to correct the problem.
>
>h.root-servers.net and i.root-servers.net appear to be responding
>correctly at the time of writing.
>
>
>
>At 11:56 17/07/97 BST, you wrote:
>>Bernhard Pospiech writes:
>>
>>> Check WWW.HAWKWIND.COM to get more infos
>>
>>This isn't working for me today.   Is anyone else having problems?
>The
>>message says the server doesn't have a DNS entry - whatever that may be
>>when it's working.
>>
>>jill
>>
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>>J.D.Strobridge at ed.ac.uk                         eset08 at tattoo.ed.ac.uk
>>
>ELIJSA at srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk
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