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Re: Six PCs caused BigPond problems
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:44:19 -0400
On Apr 15, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Patrick W Gilmore wrote:Well configured laptops will not put that much pressure on the roots. A single misconfigured / broken recursive name server puts a lot more pressure on the roots than lots of well-configured laptops. I guess one could argue that the chance of misconfiguration go up as the number of systems goes up.http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39188319,00.htmDisconnecting six compromised personal computers on Tuesday evening eased the difficulties caused by bogus requests which clogged BigPond's domain name servers (DNS), slowing customer e-mail and Web site access, Telstrasaid.
Precisely my point. The problem is not number of well behaved systems, but the misbehaving ones.
Again, you could argue that the quantity / chance of misconfiguration goes up with the quantity of systems being configured, but the end result still depends a great deal more on how many are misbehaving than how many there are in total.
-- TTFN, patrick
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