On Apr 15, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
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.
Precisely my point. The problem is not number of well behaved systems, but the misbehaving ones. Again, you could argue that the quantity / chance of misconfiguration goes up with the quantity of systems being configured, but the end result still depends a great deal more on how many are misbehaving than how many there are in total. -- TTFN, patrick