Sweden Loses its Internet Connection for an Hour
October 14th, 2009Via: Telegraph:
At 9:45pm local time on Monday 12 October, every Swedish website went down, and no emails to or from Swedish domains could be received. Around 900,000 domains were affected.
The problem was caused by an “incorrectly configured script” in an update of the .se domain, according to Pingdom, a Swedish web monitoring company.
Apparently a single missing full stop at the end of the code meant that the Domain Name Systems (DNS) failed to recognise .se as the “top-level” (country-wide) domain.
Research Credit: Lagavulin
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