News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

Thu Sep 18 19:36:26 UTC 2003

Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:10:57 -0400 (EDT)
> bdragon at gweep.net wrote:
> 
> > manufacturer assigned macs are guaranteed to be globally unique.
> 
> Theoretically.  I didn't experience it personally, but I believe there
> was at least one fairly well known event a few years back where a
> manufacturer shipped cards with duplicated UAAs.

Ascend had a run of Pipeline ISDN routers where the record stuck
the record stuck the record stuck [1] the MAC incrementor stuck
on the production line. 

No one noticed for months until some poor guy had TWO on one
LAN segment...

[1] Apologies to Monty Python..

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