On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Randy Bush wrote: :when an attack happens that was generally not even perceived by the :users, it's a major disaster : :i love the press A close read of the article shows that the quotes are actually moderate and accurate, it's just the reporting style that is breathless and suggestive. Honestly, if it was CNN or Fox reporting, we would have seen an epic Geraldo Rivera special, standing outside Al Gore's office with an excavation team waiting to sift through the rubble of the Internet for clues to the whereabouts of Bin Laden, with hourly updates and opinion from various Survivor contestants. There are worse things. I get a number of regular briefings regarding these sort of things, and sadly, many of them are taken from press reports. To many executives, it doesn't matter what actually happened, as much as who said it happened, and how large an expenditure they said we can justify to our investors to mitigate the threat. The only useful recommendations I can think of to give to regular users would be to increase the TTL's on their zones to longer than a day if they are worried about root servers making their domains unresolvable, maybe expect occasional delays in name resolution when surfing the net, and to remind them to ensure their machines are locked down. Any others? -- batz