More info on the recent problems on the 'Net

[Sam Rasins <Sa...@Caribe-Enterprises.com>]

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07-17-97

Laurence Kahn, the guy that ported BIND to NT,  discovered the a.root 
problem last nite.  An individual on his mailing list noticed that he was 
having some problems with TLD's, not all, just some.  There was no name 
resolution.  IP's worked fine, just no DNS -- again not on all TLD's.  He 
had problems thru about 7:30am this morning.  He talked to some ISP 
type's that were flushing their DNS cache today to make sure no erroneous 
info was still hanging around.

Also heard MAE-West was down yesterday due to a power outage and was still 
not fully functional as of noon today.  Haven't heard any more about that.

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From: David Holtzman <dh...@internic.net>
Subject: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:52:18 +0500 (GMT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu

 On Wednesday night, July 16, during the computer-generation of the
 Internet top-level domain zone files, an Ingres database failure
 resulted in corrupt .COM and .NET zone files.  Despite alarms raised
 by Network Solutions' quality assurance schemes, at approximately
 2:30 a.m. (Eastern Time), a system administrator released the zone
 file without regenerating the file and verifying its integrity.
 Network Solutions corrected the problem and reissued the zone file 
 by 6:30 a.m. (Eastern Time). 

Thank you.
David H. Holtzman
Sr VP Engineering, Network Solutions
dholtz@internic.net