Comments on: Sweden’s Internet broken by DNS mistake

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:15:15 +0000

Only just found out about this. It’s interesting to me because, as far as I can tell, this happens to the dot-zm (Zambia) TLD on a regular basis.

By: The Dumb and Dumber - Recreational Flying

The Dumb and Dumber - Recreational Flying — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:59:20 +0000

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By: Pingdom

Pingdom — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:48:52 +0000

Tushar Kapila: They have failsafes in place, afaik, but apparently in this case something went wrong in the routines.

By: Tushar Kapila

Tushar Kapila — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:33:17 +0000

i think the problem is that these linux / unix chaps use too notepad too much. vs apps that check values and could have some intelligence built in.

By: Zwarten Danny

Zwarten Danny — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:42:20 +0000

Who cares?

By: One who remembers

One who remembers — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:28:11 +0000

Reminds me of the days when a missing “.” in a COBOL program or the placement of a symbol in JCL would be one position off; these would drive mainframers bonkers. It’s amusingly ironic that technology has advanced so far yet is still subject to the same problems as its dinosaur ancestors – human error.

By: Geekなぺーじ : スウェーデンのインターネットが90分弱壊れました | てきとう日記

Geekなぺーじ : スウェーデンのインターネットが90分弱壊れました | てきとう日記 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:40:30 +0000

[...] 「Royal Pingdom : Sweden’s Internet broken by DNS mistake」 [...]

By: Sweden disappears from the internet via a missing dot | UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:17:53 +0000

[...] to Web monitoring company Pingdom (ironically based in Sweden) the disablement of an entire top-level domain is rare, “usually [...]

By: Internet sueco se cae completo | UR-VE.COM

Internet sueco se cae completo | UR-VE.COM — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:51:44 +0000

[...] sitio Royal Pingdom, basado en Suecia, explicó que “el registro .se usó un script configurado incorrectamente [...]

By: Was ein Punkt alles bewirken kann – Fuchsbau.me

Was ein Punkt alles bewirken kann – Fuchsbau.me — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:15:05 +0000

[...] hat ein Skript diesen abschließenden Punkt unterschlagen. Die Konsequenz daraus: Alle 900.000 Domains mit der Endung .se waren nicht mehr erreichbar. Der Fehler wurde kurze Zeit später korrigiert. Bis alle DNS Caches wieder mit gültigen Adressen [...]