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A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 14 points 1 year 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.

[–] TastyWheat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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