[92011] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Spain was offline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Jackson)
Thu Aug 31 11:31:40 2006
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:30:29 -0700
From: "Joseph Jackson" <JJackson@aninetworks.com>
To: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, <gstammw@gmx.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I wish the article had more info since I have been wondering how a
software upgrade downed the entire zone. Wasn't there any backup
servers? Did they not test the upgrade before hand? I know I'd lose my
job if I upgraded our dns servers all at once with out testing. =20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On=20
> Behalf Of Fergie
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:26 PM
> To: gstammw@gmx.net
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Spain was offline
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> Netcraft:
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> [snip]
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> A botched software update at Spain's central domain registry=20
> knocked as many as 400,000 sites offline for several hours=20
> Tuesday, according to the Esnic registry. The error left=20
> Internet users unable to access domains using .es, the=20
> country code top-level domain for Spain.
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> [snip]
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> More:
> http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/08/30/thousands_of_span
> ish_web_sites_knocked_offline_by_software_error.html
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> - ferg
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> -- "Gunther Stammwitz" <gstammw@gmx.net> wrote:
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> He colleagues,
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> Spain (at least the .es-part) was offline nobody reported it...?
> What's going on? In the past you were faster...
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> Gunther
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> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet =20
> fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog:=20
> http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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