On Aug 9, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
second, please think carefully about the word "severe". any time someone can cheerfully hammer you at full-GigE speed for 10 hours, you've got some trouble, and you'll need to monitor for those troubles. 11 seconds of 10MBit/sec fit my definition of "severe". 10 hours at 1000MBit/sec doesn't.
I think what we're seeing here is the realization that DNS hosting, like web hosting, is no longer something that can simply be done by tossing a machine on the internet and leaving it there; it needs professional management, monitoring and updates. That's always a hard transition for some people to make, but it's one that has to be made; that's the world we live in. Kee Hinckley CEO/CTO Somewhere Inc. Somewhere: http://www.somewhere.com/ TechnoSocial: http://xrl.us/bh35i I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate those of everybody else.