[Outages-discussion] [outages] whois.arin.net refuses connections on v6

[Dave Hart]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 14:44 UTC, Frank Bulk <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:
> ARIN’s CTO shared with me that this was due to the leap second bug.
> Originally ARIN staff thought it was due to the maintenance they performed
> Saturday morning.

Do you believe he meant the Linux 2.6.26 - 3.3.x livelock bug, the
Linux mutex bug (which triggered reports of Java spinning and mysql
replication stalling), or the earlier Linux printk deadlock bug?  The
first could occur up to 24 hours ahead of the leap second, the others
occurred at the time of insertion.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/15/157
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/1/25
https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/2/373

Cheers,
Dave Hart