Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems

Mon Apr 18 02:17:47 UTC 2005

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:

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> 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
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> -- Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
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> > Regardless of whether it actually _was_ a memory leak,
> > or not, it appears that the impact was on a rather
> > large enough scale.

So, 'wide scale' because they, presuming of course the article is on the
level, upgraded all devices at approximately the same time...