Oracle did disable the <a href="http://sun.com">sun.com</a> domain (although not at the DNS server level) close to a year ago. It lasted a few hours before they discovered a large number of other websites stopped working as a result, including parts of <a href="http://java.com">java.com</a>.<div>
<br></div><div>I doubt they would have made the same mistake twice, which leads me to guess this is probably an outage rather than a deliberate shutdown.</div><div><br></div><div> Scott.</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:11 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Vinny_Abello@dell.com">Vinny_Abello@dell.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Quite possibly! However, someone running <a href="http://java.com" target="_blank">java.com</a> messed up as nobody can download java anymore as a result.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">-Vinny<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Jon Radel [mailto:<a href="mailto:jradel@vantage.com" target="_blank">jradel@vantage.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Abello, Vinny<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank">outages@outages.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [outages] <a href="http://sun.com" target="_blank">sun.com</a> name servers unreachable?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Old news finally comes to fruition?<br>
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<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/16/oracle_closes_sun_domain/" target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/16/oracle_closes_sun_domain/</a><br>
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On 4/11/12 12:37 AM, <a href="mailto:Vinny_Abello@Dell.com" target="_blank">Vinny_Abello@Dell.com</a> wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve checked from multiple networks and recursive name servers. It seems all of the authoritative name servers for <a href="http://sun.com" target="_blank">sun.com</a> are not responding to requests. Is everyone else seeing this as well?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Traces look the same to all <a href="http://sun.com" target="_blank">sun.com</a> name servers I get from glue data via <a href="http://a.gtld-servers.net" target="_blank">a.gtld-servers.net</a>.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tracing route to 192.18.43.12 over a maximum of 30 hops<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> 1 <1 ms 5 ms <1 ms <a href="http://vlan40.s1-lnsskinj.dellservices.net" target="_blank">vlan40.s1-lnsskinj.dellservices.net</a> <a href="tel:%5B155.16.137.129" value="+15516137129" target="_blank">[155.16.137.129</a>]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms <a href="http://vlan31.colo3.tdc.nwt.dellservices.net" target="_blank">vlan31.colo3.tdc.nwt.dellservices.net</a> [69.39.183.177]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms <a href="http://ge1-6.core2.tdc.nwt.dellservices.net" target="_blank">ge1-6.core2.tdc.nwt.dellservices.net</a> [66.97.0.13]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 4 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms <a href="http://ge1-9.core1.ccs.phl.dellservices.net" target="_blank">ge1-9.core1.ccs.phl.dellservices.net</a> [216.182.7.58]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 5 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 12.116.229.17<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 6 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms <a href="http://cr84.phlpa.ip.att.net" target="_blank">cr84.phlpa.ip.att.net</a> <a href="tel:%5B12.123.224.222" value="+12123224222" target="_blank">[12.123.224.222</a>]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 7 17 ms 11 ms 11 ms <a href="http://cr2.phlpa.ip.att.net" target="_blank">cr2.phlpa.ip.att.net</a> <a href="tel:%5B12.122.107.117" value="+12122107117" target="_blank">[12.122.107.117</a>]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 8 12 ms 10 ms 12 ms <a href="http://cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net" target="_blank">cr1.wswdc.ip.att.net</a> [12.122.4.54]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 9 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms <a href="http://gar13.n54ny.ip.att.net" target="_blank">gar13.n54ny.ip.att.net</a> [12.122.81.245]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">10 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms 192.205.35.106<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">11 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms <a href="http://te0-1-0-5.mpd22.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com" target="_blank">te0-1-0-5.mpd22.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com</a> [154.54.26.121]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">12 26 ms 26 ms 27 ms <a href="http://te0-2-0-4.mpd22.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com" target="_blank">te0-2-0-4.mpd22.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com</a> [154.54.40.242]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">13 45 ms 45 ms 45 ms <a href="http://te0-1-0-2.mpd22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com" target="_blank">te0-1-0-2.mpd22.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com</a> [154.54.3.202]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">14 57 ms 57 ms 57 ms <a href="http://te4-4.mpd02.den01.atlas.cogentco.com" target="_blank">te4-4.mpd02.den01.atlas.cogentco.com</a> [154.54.45.49]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">15 57 ms 57 ms 57 ms <a href="http://te3-2.ccr01.den03.atlas.cogentco.com" target="_blank">te3-2.ccr01.den03.atlas.cogentco.com</a> [154.54.83.34]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">16 80 ms 80 ms 80 ms 38.122.114.46<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">17 80 ms 80 ms 80 ms <a href="http://mpr2.den.ve3-bbnet2.pnap.net" target="_blank">mpr2.den.ve3-bbnet2.pnap.net</a> [216.52.40.72]<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">18 * * * Request timed out.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Vinny<u></u><u></u></p>
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