Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/23/legendary_mishap/
UK ISP mislays domains beginning with 'C'
Legend Communications cock-up
Posted in Music and Media, 23rd November 2006 09:35 GMT
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UK ISP Legend Communications has been suffering an alphabetical technical problem over the past couple of days apparently affecting its Designer Servers (http://www.dsvr.co.uk/) customers:
Mercifully, Legend is now part of THUS plc which boasts a "state-of-the-art next-generation network". This would explain why the latest network status report (http://www.legend.co.uk/support/networkstatus.php) declares the issue has "now been located and the problem eradicated".
Indeed, Legend customers should note that merely mislaying domains beginning with "C" is a great improvement on previous performance. Back in September, the ISP's email, IP telephony and domain name servers were smitten (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/15/legend_mess_up/) by a catastrophic power outage at Legend's Docklands IP House, resulting in much wailing and gnashing of teeth. ®
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Thanks to James Green for alerting us to the "C" emergency. According to another rattled reader - Simon Evans - the explanation for the outrage was previous explain thus: "The c section of the zone rebuild on the dns servers has gone a bit foo barred'." This, he notes, is "less than reassuring".