Also IT pede: 100% concur. Pulling the records from the Root Servers could only be intentional, though. BGP has nothing to do with DNS. But I want it to be (2) and (4) together, please...
Absolutely nothing would surprise me at this point. Would they do it intentionally and pre-emptively? Absolutely. Remember the email tale of Hillary and the hammers? I put NOTHING past them.
Also IT pede: 100% concur. Pulling the records from the Root Servers could only be intentional, though. BGP has nothing to do with DNS. But I want it to be (2) and (4) together, please...
Do you think theyd do this preemptively to cover crimes?
Im talking back door pay to play pages on their site to CP. Putin called them out on this a few days ago.
Could be done intentionally to establish a record of failure on advance of communication blackout
No.
This is either gov't level temp shutdown, or some internal strife took it down for a while. 2 or 4. But not exactly either.
Absolutely nothing would surprise me at this point. Would they do it intentionally and pre-emptively? Absolutely. Remember the email tale of Hillary and the hammers? I put NOTHING past them.