[11358] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic does it again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Mon Jul 28 16:39:23 1997
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:06:59 -0500
To: David Stoddard <dgs@us.net>
From: Stephen Sprunk <sprunk@csi.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707281619.MAA19464@us.net>
At 12:19 07-28-97 -0400, David Stoddard <dgs@us.net> wrote:
> [Case in point -- before Dave Holtzman started posting on NANOG
> a few weeks ago, I can't remember anytime when an SVP at the
> InterNIC cared enough to post anything to the NANOG list.]
Well, it's nice that he posted something, but why did he have to wait until
16 hours after the problem occurred [1]? Someone else noticed the problem
and sent a message to NANOG in UNDER 3 MINUTES [2]. Holtzman also made no
mention in this notice about how a sysadmin overrode the "quality
assurance" mechanisms or that they have made any effort to prevent future
occurances of the same problem(s).
Too little, too late.
Stephen
"From: David Holtzman <dholtz@internic.net>
"Subject: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems
"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
"Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:33:58 -0700 (PDT)
"From: Taner Halicioglu <taner@isi.net>
"To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
"Subject: root nameservers broken again?
"
"bleh... is it me, or are the root nameservers hosed again?
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