[10936] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MFS)
Thu Jul 17 15:16:30 1997
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 14:44:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: MFS <michael@dook.org>
To: David Holtzman <dholtz@internic.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707171752.NAA15165@opsmail.internic.net>
I guess we'll be seeing a new system administration job popping up
on jobs.netsol.com?
Michael
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, David Holtzman wrote:
> 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
>
