Six PCs caused BigPond problems

Fri Apr 15 05:38:28 UTC 2005

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Patrick W Gilmore wrote:
> Well configured laptops will not put that much pressure on the roots.
> A single misconfigured / broken recursive name server puts a lot more
> pressure on the roots than lots of well-configured laptops.
>
> I guess one could argue that the chance of misconfiguration go up as
> the number of systems goes up.

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39188319,00.htm

Disconnecting six compromised personal computers on Tuesday evening eased
the difficulties caused by bogus requests which clogged BigPond's domain
name servers (DNS), slowing customer e-mail and Web site access, Telstra
said.