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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:03:38 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:30:37 BST, Peter Corlett said: > > > OTOH, I can believe that somebody broke a Perl script critical to it > > and it rolled out a valid, but empty, zonefile which the secondaries > > faithfully replicated. Not that I've watched cascading DNS failures > > at too many places with bits of crufty Perl, oh no... > > ISTR some database extract failing in a new and unusual way a few years > ago, and about 1/3 of the entire .com domain evaporolated for several hours.... > This is an old, old story -- such failures have been with us for a long time. Not all that many years ago, the entire (US) 800 number system was down for a similar reason -- the program that populated the production database from the back end master copies hiccupped, and things got *very* confused. For many more stories like this, see the archives of the RISKS Digest (http://www.risks.org). --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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