[194126] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NOC] ARIN contact needed: something bad happens with legacy IPv4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Mar 17 12:26:32 2017
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:26:03 -0400
To: Romeo Zwart <rz+nng@zwart.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, noc@computing.kiae.ru
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Romeo Zwart <rz+nng@zwart.com> wrote:
> RIPE NCC have issued a statement about the issue here:
>
> https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/2017-March/003394.html
>
> Our apologies for the inconvenience caused.
Hmm. That sounds like an ARIN-side bug too. ARIN's code responded to
corrupted data by zeroing out the data instead of using the last known good
data. That's awfully brittle for such a critical service.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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