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Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems

  • From: MFS
  • Date: Thu Jul 17 15:08:23 1997 
I guess we'll be seeing a new system administration job popping up 
on jobs.netsol.com?

Michael

On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, David Holtzman wrote:

> 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
> [email protected]
>