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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Fergie > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/ > >
