Typo takes down Internet in Sweden
Summary
A period was dropped at the end of DNS domain name system records for the Swedish top-level domain, breaking the entire DNS lookup chain.
Topics
A problem during routine maintenance of Sweden's top-level domain, .se, took down the internet for the country for about an hour on Monday night.
The .se registry used an incorrectly configured script to update the .se zone, Sweden-based Pingdom, which monitors website performance, wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. A period was dropped at the end of DNS domain name system records for the Swedish top-level domain, breaking the entire DNS lookup chain.
This meant websites ending in .se could not be accessed, and email to Swedish domain names stopped working. For some sites the problems will take longer to resolve because of the fact that DNS lookups are cached externally and those servers had to be flushed, Pingdom said.
Read more on "Internet breaks in Sweden after DNS maintenance error" from CNET News.
Talkback Most Recent of 16 Talkback(s)
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Headline
I would have headlined this story "Sweden is Missing Its Period".
AndrewBW14th Oct 2009 -
RE: Typo takes down Internet in Sweden
What does this imply for the rush to the cloud?
cbartram14th Oct 2009 -
re:What does this imply for the rush to the cloud?
Not really anything.
The cloud is merely the network with computers attached, something we all use all the time, so there is no greater implication to the timeshare of the cloud than to any of the rest of the Internet.
mithraigor@...14th Oct 2009 -
You can't be serious
Duh!! Tell that to the Swedes. Tell that to businesses loosing money. This is what is feared about the cloud. Computers on a network (Internet) work on such addresses being resolved, get the address wrong or take out a whole country full of addresses and you loose contact to them and so no data access, no software access, no urgent or vital emails. No thanks, no cloud for anyone seriously doing business.
bsit@...15th Oct 2009 -
Don't hire Swedes?
"What does this imply for the rush to the cloud?"
- Don't hire Swedes?
Socratesfoot15th Oct 2009 -
RE: Typo takes down Internet in Sweden
Not really the right headline.
Really should read Typo blocks access to Swedish web-sites and email addresses, since they were still
able to access the rest of the net from Sweden.
richard23314th Oct 2009 -
Thats ZDNET journalism again.....
Click whoring with misleading headlines.........
jonesyx215th Oct 2009 -
Techfail week
So this week is now officially named Tech-Fail week... because of all the problems happening.
Ceridan14th Oct 2009 -
randysmith@...14th Oct 2009 -
oparker@...14th Oct 2009 -
Epic fail
So much for telling users that you can't break the internet.
zclayton314th Oct 2009 -
You are FIRED !
FIRED!!!
Gradius214th Oct 2009 -
Been there, done that!
Back in the good old (mainframe) days, when we had 30,000 employees with dumb terminals hooked to one big computer, I made a typo in an assembly language job that cleaned up scratch disks every weekend. Caused the system to scratch ALL hard disks, not just the "scratch" disks, and it took down the data center for 48 hours. Sometimes, it doesn't take much to cause a major train wreck. Been there, done that! Nope, didn't get fired, but it was close!!
websquad14th Oct 2009 -
We don't need no stinking data
And we have the one where upper management decided to sell 370 time on the weekend and in the first month someone did what you did, wiped out every hard drive in the place.
I acquired a lifelong aversion to incremental backups after seeing what it took to clean that up.
mswift@...14th Oct 2009 -
RE: Typo takes down Internet in Sweden
Fired? Depends on what she looks like
vir2ul115th Oct 2009
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