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Six PCs caused BigPond problems
- From: Sean Donelan
- Date: Fri Apr 15 01:39:29 2005
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.htm
Disconnecting 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, Telstra
said.
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