On May 25, 2011, at 9:35 AM, K. Peachey wrote:
http://xkcd.org/903/ -Peachey
that error is fake! 10.0.0.242 is internal services DNS server and is not used to serve en.wikipedia.org - dberror log does not have a single instance of it! 10.0.6.42 on the other hand....
the incident yesterday was network card drivers / linux / network cards being stupid to interface going down/up - we saw some isolated issues similar to that in the past, unfortunately that knocked out all databases and they all needed serial console intervention.
Domas