[23860] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Contact handles disappearing mysteriously from the whois database!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Tue Apr 27 19:24:15 1999
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:22:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m10cEd3-00000JC@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > First, there is a bug in the whois generation code that generates the
> > indexes that whois uses. The information is still correct in the database
> > that whois is generated from. The fix is in QA now and should be in
> > operations shortly.
>
> you have the gall to spend time ensuring that it will work before deploying
> it? while all of us out here who paid $35 are waiting for the absolutely
> mission critical whois service without which our lives can not continue!
> what nerve!
I find it rather curious that QA procedures were not in place to prevent
the bug from happening in the first place. I also find it curious that
there are no rollback procedures in place to recover quickly from a bug in
generating whois data. For example, most network operators store their
router configs in a revision control system and can quickly rollback to a
previous config when changes go awry.
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