scope of the 69/8 problem

Tue Mar 11 18:51:22 UTC 2003

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

> Come on, you're asking the root and/or TLD operators to renumber their
> servers -- not a trivial task -- every few months to intentionally disable
> their own service for what amounts to an academic experience.

Not for academic experience, but to encourage people to fix their broken 
filters.  And while renumbering a large network might be non-trivial, 
changing the IP or adding an IP alias on 13 individual servers should be 
a trivial operation.

> These folks are in the business of running a critical system that requires
> 100% uptime for hundreds of millions of users, and they do a damned good
> job.  Let them do it in peace, and find some other "must have" service (like
> porn) to put in 69/8.

100% uptime for the service, not for each individual server.

So now the 69/8 holders, in addition to driving a campaign to get others 
to fix their networks, should offer free hosting to porn sites?  How about 
free hosting for spamvertized sites?...oh wait, that might make the 
problem worse :)

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