[79863] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Sun Apr 17 13:04:22 2005
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:01:09 GMT
To: fw@deneb.enyo.de
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Not to my knowledge, or at least, none that has been
publicly acknowledged.
From a Washington Post article yesterday (posted via Yahoo!
News), Comcast said that the problem manifested itself when
they were in the process of upgrading their DNS servers:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=3&u=/washpost/20050416/tc_washpost/a56223_2005apr15&sid=96168964
- ferg
-- Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> Regardless of whether it actually _was_ a memory leak,
> or not, it appears that the impact was on a rather
> large enough scale.
Have other service providers been affected, too?
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
