Global Internet Outage Over Next 48 Hours Could Affect Some Users, According To ICANN

Fossbytes ^ | October 12, 2018 | Anmol Sachdeva

[Larry Lucido]

Key Signing Key

Mine is "PASSWORD"

[EEGator]

I'm going to, as of tomorrow, be dropping my FR time to 30 minutes in the morning and evening. I went on a long vacation and realized how much, and yet how little, I missed in the news. Absolutely nothing changed in my life because of time away from news. Well, except I read books, got tan, swam with dolphins in the Pacific, and had almost zero worries.

“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”- Mark Twain

[a fool in paradise]

[EEGator]

[Reno89519]

Yes, the amount of time we can spend, is rather sobering. Leaves you to wonder what we’re missing in life day-to-day.

[LibWhacker]

Damn you all to Hell, Obama! Hand control of our internet over to the world, and what do they do? Shut it down for two days! If we’re so lucky; could be two weeks as far as we know.

[EEGator]

I'm going to go find out. I'll report back. 😏

[BenLurkin]

Ping me when the internet goes down

[Be Free]

I’m “seasoned” enough to remember the Y2K (year 2000) saga, when the world was convinced all of everything would stop, because computer programs wouldn’t be able to handle the change from 1999 to 2000.

I was in a tech company at the time, and I remember the countless hours and untold sums that were spent ensuring our programs would work when the page flipped to January 1, 2000. Big insurance companies and banks that were, and still largely are dependent on mainframe computers running COBOL programs developed in the 70’s and 80’s had to recall old employees, as no one on-staff at the time knew anything about the code.

A client asked me in 1999 what was the best-case scenario for us and our work. I replied that if all went as planned, no one would notice. (...and then some non-tech finance guy in the C-suite would berate the CTO for crying wolf and wasting money on unnecessary projects!)

[Truth29]

“One ping only.”

[zeugma]

I hate DNSSec. I have several zones that I maintain that are signed. It's a pain in the rear, for very little gain.

[Reno89519]

Yes, 1999 was one of my best years as a consultant. Lots of hours and money. All for an oops. I don’t think anyone ended up being affected, not sure the impact had folks not prepared.

[Old Yeller]

At least the roads will be safer to drive on.

[RayChuang88]

In short, set your DNS server address to a reliable one. I'd recommend the following:

OpenDNS: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
Verisign: 64.6.64.6 and 64.6.65.6

I don't recommend Google Public DNS (given Google's political issues!) or Cloudflare DNS (the 1.1.1.1 DNS addreess interferes with some network hardware).

[Boomer]

Mine is "PASSWORD"

Mine is "QWERTY" :D

[Abathar]

Sure opened my eyes.

(opened my wife’s eyes as well, mostly when she saw a couple of new .22 rifles, a .45-70, and about 5k rounds of ammo come home with me this week too...)

[TangoLimaSierra]

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[taxcontrol]

Yet until something better comes along, DNSSEC is the current best tool (regardless of how much it sucks) that we have for preventing DNS attacks.

[Admin Moderator]

Append keyword "q"	reasonisfaith	10/12/2018 8:03:38 AM PDT
Append keyword "qanon"	reasonisfaith	10/12/2018 8:03:26 AM PDT
Knock it off!

[vortec94]

Patriot series by John Wesley Rawles.