Furry Technologists

1310 readers

1 users here now

Science, Technology, and pawbs

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oddly, any DNS requests made to the server after it came back started returning IPs outside the 0..255 range. Despite that, devices could still make HTTP requests to them. When they did so, they only got served a single text file containing PLEASE STOP. IT HURTS.

permalink
fedilink
source
hideshow 2 child comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

This is the last time I join a Literature Club, I swear.

permalink
fedilink
source
parent