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Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Frisvold)
Mon Apr 18 16:07:56 2005

Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:07:07 -0400
From: Jason Frisvold <xenophage0@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Jason Frisvold <xenophage0@gmail.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>,
	"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
	"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <873btnyife.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On 4/18/05, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> 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.

There was, at one time, a fairly serious memory leak in Cisco CNR...=20
I believe I saw a post indicating that CNR was possibly in use?

--=20
Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
XenoPhage0@gmail.com

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