[Outages-discussion] theweatherspace.com blames DNS servers

[Larry Sheldon]

On 1/25/2012 10:10 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> On 1/25/2012 10:04 AM, Deny IP Any Any wrote:
>> Make sure you have the .html at the end; it works for me.
>
> Right you are--thought I checked for that.
>
> About that embarrassment code.....
>>
>> http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-12412-comcast-solar-storm-dns-outage.html

FSVO "works".  pag4e now times out.

How in the world (assuming CSC101 compliance regarding redundant 
servers) could the loss of a DNS server cause total failure?


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