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Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:03:39 -0400 (EDT)
Perhaps your DNS software also has a memory leak? Anyone know which software Comcast was using? Should other ISPs be concerned they might have the same latent problem in their systems? http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/11407913.htm Comcast said the intermittent but often-severe nighttime outages . which also occurred April 7, Tuesday and Wednesday across the country and in the St. Paul area . are related to software malfunctions on company computers responsible for receiving, interpreting and routing subscribers' Web-site requests. E-mail also was affected in some cases. A company spokeswoman wouldn't elaborate on the nature of the software problems, identifying them only as a "memory leak." But she said steps meant to end them roughly coincided with Thursday's erratic outage, which may have been less severe than the earlier ones, and added the fixes will likely avert future service blackouts of this kind.
Current thread:
- Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Sean Donelan (Apr 16)
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Florian Weimer (Apr 17)
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Eric A. Hall (Apr 17)
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems David Conrad (Apr 17)
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Eric A. Hall (Apr 17)
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Eric A. Hall (Apr 17)
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Apr 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Apr 17)
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Florian Weimer (Apr 17)
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Apr 17)
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 17)
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Martin J. Levy (Apr 17)
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 17)
(Thread continues...)
- Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems Florian Weimer (Apr 17)