Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov

An anonymous reader writes "A Network World reader whose brother works for a California state agency forwarded me an e-mail alert that his brother received: "The Department of Technology Services (DTS) has notified us that the Federal Government inadvertently deleted the CA.GOV domain. As the evening progresses you may experience an impact in your ability to access some Web sites and exchange e-mail. DTS is working with their federal counterparts to restore service as quickly as possible but service may not be restored until tomorrow morning.""

Re:who really cares, when does ca.mx go live?

[djh101010]

Unfortunately, yes. But, should California ever decide to secede, I will be in full support of same.

No wonder!

[sweet 'n sour]

I was attempting to do some research at the California DMV web site yesterday and kept getting 404's. Google cache to the rescue. Maybe they can rebuild from that alone!

Why such a low TTL?

[Anonymous Coward]

Shouldn't they use a longer time to live (7 days? 1 month?) for such important dns records?

nice troll, sir

[Anonymous Coward]

the first state with a prohibition on raising property taxes and a 60% approval for any locality to have specific tax increases, the state with so many people in prison it has to outsource to neighboring states, the state with no prison healthcare (thus the courts took the system over), and the state that produced reagan and arnold.

oh yes, it has sooo fallen off the left edge.

CA isn't crazy lefties--it's home to the new billionaires, the largest economy in the US, and a lot of republican counties. Everyone thinks it's lefty land because there's berkeley and a lot of queers, but CA is a state of big business and traditional politics.

I live in SF and I assure you our mayor is no more radical (and actually a lot more plain) than john edwards. Which is actually kind of amusing when you think about it--the most populist democratic frontrunner is from a very red state (NC). One might go so far as to say that the reason barak and hillary are so centered is that they have to avoid being branded crazy liberals by trolls like you. Ahhh regional politics.