[64354] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: data request on Sitefinder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Mon Oct 20 21:41:00 2003
In-Reply-To: <20031020213504.37129.qmail@web80503.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:46:18 -0400
To: Henry Linneweh <hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net>
From: Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 2:35 PM -0700 10/20/03, Henry Linneweh wrote:
>I see serious troubles ahead, imagine a client of a client who has
>lets say 3,000+ servers on-line and new list of clients is added and
>there is a typo and all 3,000 servers are redirected with 10's of
>thousands of clients, each with the potential to sue in both directions.
>
But clearly the problem there is in the UI for the application they
used. After all, if the application had just looked up the host name
the admin entered, and checked first to see if it had an A record,
then the typo would have been detected immediately, instead of after
deployment.
:-)
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