Dear all, As this list appears to strip attachments, I placed the graphs at http://drop.io/rsgraphs kim ________________________________________ From: na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org [na-discuss-bounces@atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Kim Davies [kim.davies@icann.org] Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2008 10:24 AM To: na-discuss@atlarge-lists.icann.org Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] [ga] Root-Servers missing: g.root-servers.net and k.root-servers.net In the interests of bringing some facts into this thread, I hope this clarifies: * neither the G or K root are operated by ICANN or IANA; * neither was offline in the last few days prior to the complaint; * the original person who observed problems with the K root spoke with the K root operator on another list and the issue was identified as likely local to the observer's network, not to the root server; * as for the claim that "the US Military like the Canadian military complex often gets attacks routed through the IANA", I have no idea what this means. Perhaps the complainant could explain precisely that they mean. Attached is a graph of the responsiveness of all 13 root servers for the last 48 hours, as tested from 69 testing points around the world. If it was predominantly offline it would show as a solid red bar. As you can see one such event occured for G root, but that was at 1600 GMT on Monday, after this thread had started. By looking at that in more detail detail on the second graph, we can see it was still up and answering, but was problematic reaching it from many test sites. (If it was offline it will be universally red all the way down the graph) kim