| From: | Scott Lamb <slamb(at)slamb(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: .org domain went down. |
| Date: | 2003-05-20 01:08:02 |
| Message-ID: | 8141E691-8A5F-11D7-A4F1-000393D581B8@slamb.org |
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On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 10:48 US/Central, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> According to the register (covered by Slashdot), the .org domain went
> down for a little while. Isn't that the one running on a postgres
> server? Does anybody know anything about this?
It's working fine, and I see no evidence that it was anything but
working fine. The Register's article was a bunch of allegations with no
basis in reality. My guess is that someone saw the "No match for
'SLAMB.ORG'."-style message when they did a whois query and assumed
that meant the server was down, when it really meant they were querying
Verisign's server, which doesn't know anything about .org. And then
posted a unsubstantiated rant. And, naturally, the slashdot people
linked to it without verifying.
Scott
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