Of DNS Errors and Secret Missions
My household is experiencing an Internet brownout today. Fully two-thirds of pages we try to load result in a DNS error or, as Firefox translates: "Server not found. Firefox can’t find the server at www…"
Any blogspot address is nil, but Google works. Many advertising banners are void, diminishing the silent shouts of "lookee here!" characteristic of online blurbs (that’s actually nice…). Sometimes I can get to my Earthlink start page, sometimes not - but my games still work. PHEW!
I bet Al Qaida is behind this. No one on the planet has the sophistication, the will, the mastery to pull of such a stunt. I can see them now, sneaking into manholes with power tools to cut through fiber optic lines in geographical coordination, severing the information backbone of our fragile nation.
And what is the Department of Homeboy Scrutiny doing? Nothing. Wait - it just looks like they’re doing nothing because they’re doing it in secret. Yeah, that’s right. Secret. No doubt they’re honing in on the manholes, awaiting just outside with big wooden mallets to bop those evil Al Qaida on the heads as they emerge from their nefarious deeds, like some life-sized gopher game. SHHH! Don’t tell anyone.
It must be working, because I have finally loaded a Blogger page. Could be an anomaly, though.