security A root-server at the Internet's core lost touch with its peers. We still don't know why

[Future Sensors]

A root-server at the Internet's core lost touch with its peers. We still don't know why.

For 4 days, the C-root server maintained by Cogent lost touch with its 12 peers.

For more than four days, a server at the very core of the Internet’s domain name system was out of sync with its 12 root server peers due to an unexplained glitch that could have caused stability and security problems worldwide. This server, maintained by Internet carrier Cogent Communications, is one of the 13 root servers that provision the Internet’s root zone, which sits at the top of the hierarchical distributed database known as the domain name system, or DNS.

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https://arstechnica.com/security/20...ternet-stability-fixed-cause-remains-unclear/

 

[namegulf]

And if twitter/x or instagram is down for few secs, it'll be everywhere

We've yet to go a long long way!

 

[Constantin S]

AI is finally taking over.

 

[Future Sensors]

2024‑05‑23 - On May 21 at 15:30 UTC the c-root team at Cogent Communications was informed that the root zone as served by c-root had ceased to track changes from the root zone publication server after May 18. Analysis showed this to have been caused by an unrelated routing policy change whose side effect was to silence the relevant monitoring systems. No production DNS queries went unanswered by c-root as a result of this outage, and the only impact was on root zone freshness. Root zone freshness as served by c-root was fully restored on May 22 at 16:00 UTC.

Source: https://c.root-servers.org/