Spain was offline

Thu Aug 31 15:30:29 UTC 2006

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 at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Fergie
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:26 PM
> To: gstammw at gmx.net
> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Spain was offline
> 
> 
> Netcraft:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 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.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 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 at 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/
> 
> 