Monday night, all of Sweden lost access to the Internet, thanks to a problem that arose during routine maintenance of the country’s top-level domain, .se (like .com or .us in the U.S.).
The root of the issue was an improperly configured script (or set of commands) used to update the .se zone. When Sweden’s Internet Infrastructure Foundation investigated the cause, it found that the error in the configuration was a simple typo; someone had left a period off the end of a DNS record. DNS is the system responsible for turning Web names like Switched.com into a machine-readable IP address.
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Typo Takes Out Internet for Swedes originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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