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Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems


From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:18:57 -0400


In message <20050417.100203.11740.378954 () webmail23 lax untd com>, "Fergie (Paul
 Ferguson)" writes:


Not to my knowledge, or at least, none that has been
publicly acknowledged.

From a Washington Post article yesterday (posted via Yahoo!
News), Comcast said that the problem manifested itself when
they were in the process of upgrading their DNS servers:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=3&u=/washpost/20050416
/tc_washpost/a56223_2005apr15&sid=96168964



At least in my neighborhood, Comcast appears to be running BIND 9.2.4rc6

                --Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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