NSI bulletin 097-004 | Root Server Problems
MFS
michael at dook.org
Thu Jul 17 18:44:21 UTC 1997
I guess we'll be seeing a new system administration job popping up
on jobs.netsol.com?
Michael
On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, David Holtzman wrote:
> 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 at internic.net
>
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