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From: markb@unix386.Convergent.COM (Mark Beyer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Is the DNS "working"?
Message-ID: <7335@unix386.Convergent.COM>
Date: 22 Apr 91 20:09:40 GMT
References: <NELSON.91Apr18230637@sun.clarkson.edu> <17653@venera.isi.edu>
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hotz@isi.edu (Steve Hotz) writes:

>In article <NELSON.91Apr18230637@sun.clarkson.edu>
>nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes:

>>> Per the quoted message, I'd have to say "No, the Domain Name
>>> System (DNS) is not working".
	:
	:
>           for the most part DNS problems are due to misconfigurations
>by administrators.

Personally, I think the DNS administrative interface was designed by the IRS.
It has to rank right up there with root canal work as one of the most fun 
things to contemplate.

But you're right, it's probably the administrators' fault(s).

( :-) ).
-- 
Mark Beyer
markb@convergent.com
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