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Re:Ask HN: Tell me an engineering war story from your career by itamarst on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:40PM (#13990371)
I've heard similar story about a DNS server: 100 processes would startup at same time, do DNS query, DNS server crashes. 100 processes then retry automatically... exactly 1 minute later. Another crash :) Repeat until human intervenes.
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Re:Ask HN: Tell me an engineering war story from your career by toomuchtodo on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:45PM (#13990409)
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
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