[79940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Apr 18 15:51:53 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:49:09 +0200
In-Reply-To: <BE89630D.ACAA%dgolding@burtongroup.com> (Daniel Golding's
message of "Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:13:49 -0400")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Daniel Golding:
> I wouldn't rush to blame BIND for this.
Maybe the leak wasn't in the DNS service, but some other software
component which company policy required on each server (think of
Tivoli, antivirus software, or CSA). Who knows? The possiblities are
endless.