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Re: Spain was offline
- From: Steven M. Bellovin
- Date: Thu Aug 31 13:48:13 2006
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:03:38 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:30:37 BST, Peter Corlett said:
>
> > OTOH, I can believe that somebody broke a Perl script critical to it
> > and it rolled out a valid, but empty, zonefile which the secondaries
> > faithfully replicated. Not that I've watched cascading DNS failures
> > at too many places with bits of crufty Perl, oh no...
>
> ISTR some database extract failing in a new and unusual way a few years
> ago, and about 1/3 of the entire .com domain evaporolated for several hours....
>
This is an old, old story -- such failures have been with us for a long
time. Not all that many years ago, the entire (US) 800 number system was
down for a similar reason -- the program that populated the production
database from the back end master copies hiccupped, and things got *very*
confused.
For many more stories like this, see the archives of the RISKS Digest
(http://www.risks.org).
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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