+ - Army DNS ROOT server down for 4+ hours->
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An anonymous reader writes "The H-Root server, operated by the U.S Army Research Lab spent over 4 hours in the last 48 hours being a void. Both the RIPE's DNSMON (http://dnsmon.ripe.net) and the h.root-servers.org (http://h.root-servers.org/) site show this. Why is it that in this day and age of network engineering we can even entertain one of the thirteen root servers being unavailable for so long? I mean the US army don't even seem to make the effort to deploy more sites. Look at the other root operators (http://root-servers.org/) who don't have the backing of the US government money machine. Many of them seem to be able to deploy redundant instances. Even the much maligned ICANN seems to manage to deploy 11 sites. All these root operators that have only 1 site need a good swift kick, or maybe they should pass the responsibility to others who are more committed to ensuring the Internet's stability."
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