22 Jan 2004
Security and Fort N.O.C.'s

This article takes apart a piece on the DNS system and root servers that appeared on MSNBC. Very instructive article from the standpoint of illustrating exactly how journalists who don't understand a system can completely booger up any story they write concerning it.

In an article by MSNBC called "Fort N.O.C.'s" [Network Operating Center] Brock N. Meeks reports: "The unassuming building that houses the "A" root sits in a cluster of three others; the architecture looks as if it were lifted directly from a free clip art library. No signs or markers give a hint that the Internet's most precious computer is inside humming happily away in a hermetically sealed room. This building complex could be any of a 100,000 mini office...

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