data request on Sitefinder

Tue Oct 21 00:46:18 UTC 2003

At 2:35 PM -0700 10/20/03, Henry Linneweh wrote:
>I see serious troubles ahead, imagine a client of a client who has
>lets say 3,000+ servers on-line and new list of clients is added and
>there is a typo and all 3,000 servers are redirected with 10's of
>thousands of clients, each with the potential to sue in both directions.
>

But clearly the problem there is in the UI for the application they 
used.  After all, if the application had just looked up the host name 
the admin entered, and checked first to see if it had an A record, 
then the typo would have been detected immediately, instead of after 
deployment.

:-)

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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
everyone else's.