[10929] in North American Network Operators' Group
NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Holtzman)
Thu Jul 17 14:08:57 1997
From: David Holtzman <dholtz@internic.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:52:18 +0500 (GMT)
On Wednesday night, July 16, during the computer-generation of the
Internet top-level domain zone files, an Ingres database failure resulted
in corrupt .COM and .NET zone files. Despite alarms raised by Network
Solutions' quality assurance schemes, at approximately 2:30 a.m. (Eastern
Time), a system administrator released the zone file without regenerating the
file and verifying its integrity. Network Solutions corrected the
problem and reissued the zone file by 6:30 a.m. (Eastern Time).
Thank you.
David H. Holtzman
Sr VP Engineering, Network Solutions
dholtz@internic.net
