[79789] in North American Network Operators' Group
Six PCs caused BigPond problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Apr 15 01:38:56 2005
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:38:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <eb93c195ef7b93b411e17cce28b7375b@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
