] When David Fitzpatrick's software for tracking and
] analyzing junk e-mail didn't work correctly, the Web
] designer assumed he had made programming mistakes and
] spent hours trying to fix them.
]
] Then he discovered it wasn't his skills that were faulty,
] but the Internet that essentially broke. Elsewhere, more
] spam slipped through, printers misbehaved and cell phones
] got unusual Web traffic.
]
] "I'm upset about this because it's cost us time and
] money," said Fitzpatrick, who runs Lone Star Interactive
] in Arlington, Texas, and tracks spam on the side.

There is little new in this story, but it reflects a number of stories I've heard from people who were troubleshooting various things the day sitefinder went live and ended up spending hours trying to figure it out before they realized the responses were coming from the root...

Engineers caught by suprise by Verisign while troubleshooting problems...