nanog mailing list archives

Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems


From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:01:09 GMT



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

- ferg


-- Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de> wrote:

Regardless of whether it actually _was_ a memory leak,
or not, it appears that the impact was on a rather
large enough scale.

Have other service providers been affected, too?

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


Current thread: