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."
auf Deutsch? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:auf Deutsch? (Score:0, Insightful)
OH NO!!! (Score:1, Insightful)
Where will people get their bizarre latex fetish watersports dungeon porn now!?!?!?!!
Re:So... (Score:0, Insightful)
It's a single point of failure for the "distributed" internet. Just imagine if this happens to ICANN. Yeah you can still access the IP addresses, but that doesn't really help casual people.
Re:We call that... (Score:4, Insightful)
Three Mile Island is a good example: Back than it was a Super-GAU as nobody designed reactors to handle gas buildup. With modern reactors it's a regular a GAU since modern designs are required to consider that failure mode and mitigate it.
In short: A GAU is "well, I guess after we're done decontamining and repairing the plant we'll need to do quite a bit of lobbying to get it back online". A Super-GAU is "we just contaminated how much land?".
Re:auf Deutsch? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:OH NO!!! (Score:3, Insightful)