At 12:19 07-28-97 -0400, David Stoddard <dgs@us.net> wrote:
[Case in point -- before Dave Holtzman started posting on NANOG a few weeks ago, I can't remember anytime when an SVP at the InterNIC cared enough to post anything to the NANOG list.]
Well, it's nice that he posted something, but why did he have to wait until 16 hours after the problem occurred [1]? Someone else noticed the problem and sent a message to NANOG in UNDER 3 MINUTES [2]. Holtzman also made no mention in this notice about how a sysadmin overrode the "quality assurance" mechanisms or that they have made any effort to prevent future occurances of the same problem(s). Too little, too late. Stephen "From: David Holtzman <dholtz@internic.net> "Subject: NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems "To: nanog@merit.edu "Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:52:18 +0500 (GMT) " "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 "dholtz@internic.net "Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 00:33:58 -0700 (PDT) "From: Taner Halicioglu <taner@isi.net> "To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu> "Subject: root nameservers broken again? " "bleh... is it me, or are the root nameservers hosed again? -- Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of not less than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html