15 Apr
2005
15 Apr
'05
1:38 a.m.
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.