I wish the article had more info since I have been wondering how a software upgrade downed the entire zone. Wasn't there any backup servers? Did they not test the upgrade before hand? I know I'd lose my job if I upgraded our dns servers all at once with out testing.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Fergie Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:26 PM To: gstammw@gmx.net Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Spain was offline
Netcraft:
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A botched software update at Spain's central domain registry knocked as many as 400,000 sites offline for several hours Tuesday, according to the Esnic registry. The error left Internet users unable to access domains using .es, the country code top-level domain for Spain.
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More: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/08/30/thousands_of_span ish_web_sites_knocked_offline_by_software_error.html
- ferg
-- "Gunther Stammwitz" <gstammw@gmx.net> wrote:
He colleagues,
Spain (at least the .es-part) was offline nobody reported it...? What's going on? In the past you were faster...
Gunther
-- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/