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Re: google.com outage?

  • From: Paul Vixie
  • Date: Mon May 09 01:50:06 2005

> -- Chris Keladis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Just a guess, but perhaps with www.google.com returning NXDOMAIN the 
> gethostby* functions tried variations and ended up resolving sites like 
> www.google.com.net which inadvertantly sent people to the spoof site.
> 
> Seems plausible to me, anyway.

not to me.  RFC 1535 is VERY widely deployed, perhaps even universally so.
-- 
Paul Vixie