RE: Bogon stupidity... warning... operational post.

["Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan () verisign com>]

> On 12/22/05 1:35 PM, "Christopher L. Morrow" 
> <christopher.morrow () mci com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Robert Boyle wrote:
> > >
> > > > At 12:56 PM 12/22/2005, you wrote:
> > > > P.S. 204/8 was not the only problem, there were problems 
> with 128/8 and
> > > > > 133/8 as well so my apologies to people who may have 
> noticed problems
> > > > > overnight.
> > > >
> > > > 199.128.0.0/9 too.
> > >
> > > Yes, legacy blocks (with large number of smaller 
> allocations) whenever
> > > datasize during processing exceeded certain amount. The 
> bad data was
> > > present at 2 of 4 servers for duration of the night but 
> dns was being
> > so 50+% of your system was hozed for some long period of 
> time :( bad.
> > > changes same time as well, so I don't know how much affect 
> there was
> > > but apparently considerable; this is the most serious 
> problem in months.
> > >
> >
> > 'most serious problem in months' ... this has happened in 
> smaller chunks
> > during the past 'months' ? yikes... is that noted on your 
> site so users of
> > the 'service' will know what sorts of 'problems' they might be
> > encountering due to their reliance on this 'service'?
>
> I wonder how many problems cymru has had in that period? I'm 
> guess not so
> many...

I mean this in a nice way, really. Look. Smiley. :)

Use a blacklist, pay the price. I'd like to know how many
people actually went to their boss and said "It was that guy
Williams fault even though I control and am responsible for the
network.....!"

-M<