Millions of .de Domains Unreachable For Hours
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An anonymous reader writes "Due to an error on behalf of DENIC, the German DNS registrar for second-level .de domains, millions of .de domains fell over the edge (auf Deutsch) of the Internet today. The cause of this GAU (GröYter anzunehmender Unfall = maximum credible accident) is still unknown, as DENIC officials haven't answered any questions from journalists at the time of writing."
So it looked something like (Score:3, Funny)
this? [wordpress.com]
Re:auf Deutsch? (Score:5, Funny)
Problems with the root .de name server. Of course, it's funnier if you don't know that "die" is "the" in german: "die die Rootserver für die Top-Level-Domain .de" so in germglish it becomes "die, die, tld .de rootserver" OMG terrorist threat!
Re:auf Deutsch? (Score:5, Funny)
Unicode on slashdot? UNPOSSIBLE
DENIC officials haven't answered any questions (Score:3, Funny)
Meanwhile I'm sure Hitler will be happy to discuss the situation on youtube.
"Official" response (Score:5, Funny)
ref (Score:1, Funny)
We call that... (Score:1, Funny)
Also, "GAU" is probably better translated as "worst-case scenario".
We call that a clusterfuck in these here parts.
Re:auf Deutsch? (Score:3, Funny)
So it does not mean “district” anymore? ;)
Schon. (Score:5, Funny)
Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English."
Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?"
Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war."
Constantin Films/YouTube/Der Untergang (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like they put a DMCA takedown notice on the entire country.
What happened to the Germany water website? (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
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