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From UUNET:
speaking of which...
From: Scott Kozicki
Date: Friday, July 18, 1997
Time: 1:34:00 am
Beginning at approximately 2:30AM EST, the nine
independently-administered Root Nameservers that serve the .COM
and .NET Top Level Domains loaded corrupted versions of those two
domains, and began handing out incomplete and erroneous DNS information
about various second-level domain names within .COM and .NET.
This caused intermittent failures when attempting to resolve DNS
queries about some .COM and .NET domain names. These failures were
seen by UUNET customers as well as Internet users in general.
Here is an explanation provided by Network Solutions, the company
which currently manages the InterNIC and controls the content of the .
COM and .NET Top Level domains, as well as the master Root Name
Server, A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> 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
Despite the corrective efforts made by Network Solutions earlier
today, the responsibility for the .COM and .NET Top Level Domain
nameservice is shared among nine Root Nameservers, of which Network
Solutions controls only one (A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET).
Until the other eight Root Nameservers have had their .COM and .NET
data updated to remove the corruption, this problem will continue,
though with a diminishing frequency. Currently, we are seeing that
some, but not all of the Root Nameservers have loaded the updated .
COM and .NET domain information.
happy resolving!
Scott Kozicki
<SKozicki@BlueStar.net>
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