[LINK] DNS disppearing all over?

[Alex (Maxious) Sadleir]

Apparently Dodo announced a full routing table to Telstra and it was
accepted. Telstra thought Dodo was the internet.

The distinction between DNS and routing is fine in this case. Yes the DNS
lookup failed but only because everything else was failing. It was just the
first.

On Feb 23, 2012 3:36 PM, "Richard Chirgwin" <rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au>
wrote:
>
> Not DNS, routes.
>
> Because of the odd life I lead, I have iiNet fixed, Telstra 3G on a
> dongle and Optus 3G on a phone. Lost all three. So I suspect not just
> Telstra.
>
> Nobody knew what was going on during the outage - or if they knew, they
> weren't telling journalists.
>
> RC
>
> On 23/02/12 2:34 PM, Scott Howard wrote:
> > Telstra Internet had an outage.  I believe it's mostly up and running
again
> > now.
> >
> > Nothing to do with DNS as such.
> >
> >    Scott.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:10 PM,<grove at zeta.org.au>  wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I am at<some_uni>, watching the DNS slowly disappear off the network.
> >>
> >> I tried to connect to SMH and got a pernicious error
> >>
> >> "
> >> Service Unavailable - DNS failure
> >> The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try
again
> >> later.
> >>
> >> Reference #11.c4c05cb.1329966030.804a315
> >> "
> >>
> >> Now this is failing for lots of different sites, eg BOM, Slashdot and
> >> others.
> >>
> >> Anyone else seeing this right now?
> >>
> >>
> >> rachel
> >>
> >> --
> >> Rachel Polanskis                 Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney,
> >> Australia
> >> grove at zeta.org.au
http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html
> >>     "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum." -
Finagle's
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