[57008] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: how to get people to upgrade? (Re: The weak link? DNS)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Wed Mar 26 13:13:25 2003
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:12:11 -1000 (HST)
From: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303261711090.32102-100000@www.everquick.net>
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: Correct. Human behavior won't change. The pain must exceed the
: inertia.
:
: Sounds familiar. Have we seen this before?
:
: Outdated bogon filters... old software... spam... needless route
: deaggregation... broken smurf filters... ingress/egress
: filtering...
router> en
Password:
router# conf t
router(config)# force-conformity-or-else-great-pain
router(config)#^Z
router# wr mem
router#.Write startup-config in progress.
.Write startup-config done.
router#exit
router>exit
It truly is the only answer. It's how I handle things on my network.
Make it painful and they remember. Otherwise they don't. Period.
;-) scott
