[79870] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sun Apr 17 14:19:43 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Cc: fw@deneb.enyo.de, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:01:09 GMT."
<20050417.100203.11740.378954@webmail23.lax.untd.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:18:57 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <20050417.100203.11740.378954@webmail23.lax.untd.com>, "Fergie (Paul
Ferguson)" writes:
>
>
>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
>
At least in my neighborhood, Comcast appears to be running BIND 9.2.4rc6
--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
