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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems
At 11:14 AM 07/17/97 PDT, Randy Bush wrote: >> 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. > >You allow mere humans to affect the process on which the whole net relies? >Oh my gawd! I demand my money back! :-) > >But seriously. Thanks for the explanation, David. These things happen, >though rarely, one hopes. We all kinda wonder, but don't want to add to >the problem by calling, whining, ... > >Shall we have a gaffe of the week contest, this week's major entries being >this one and probably MAE-West/MFS? We could call it the Metcalf award. >But, David, please don't emulate the competiton by doing it twice. :-) Well, what would make it tough is if there were a gaffe of the month contest, because that would be NSI competing with itself. Recall that problem of a couple of weeks ago where NSI fiddled with its FTP access permissions and made it impossible for the root servers to obtain the root file ... a mistake that, like this one, was detected first by persons outside of NSI, and only hours later did NSI make any public acknowledgement of the mistake.
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