What happened to FreeBSD.org DNS earlier today?

[Al Plant]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 10/03/2012 23:41, Da Rock wrote:
>> On 03/11/12 07:01, Mark Felder wrote:
>>> On 10.03.2012 14:43, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
>>>> Earlier today, for a period of about 30-45 minutes or so, any attempt to
>>>> connect to www.freebsd.org was yielding failed hostname lookups.
> 
>>>> Did anyone else notice this?  Any word on what was causing it?  I have
>>>> to admit, it was rather startling at first.
> 
>>> Do you have any further details? What are you using for DNS servers,
>>> or are you doing lookups yourself?
> 
>> Actually, around the same time others were reporting another site (not
>> fbsd, which I could access easily) was broken. So maybe a dark cloud
>> passed over? ;)
> 
> No -- you were not imagining things.  The DNS for freebsd.org was
> temporarily broken.  It was that most impossible to remove of causes:
> human error.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
****

Aloha,

Ah, To Bad Matthew,

I was going to ask if it was the pesky Solar flares.

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