Maybe its like the saying when all you have is a hammer, everything looks
like a nail. The global funds transfer system (SWIFT) used for transferring
billions of dollars an hour had a security scare and fell back to an almost
manual system for a few days. It worked fine functionally (slightly
At 15:46 09/12/03, Dan Kolis wrote:
When polititians find out they can squelch opinion by something as simple as
a court order to delete a DNS entry, it won't take a week before instances
of it are common. The only reason they haven't is they don't understand
technology enough to know exactly how
As a (not too) humble regular DNS user as opposed to an insider... What is
the worst case scenerio on this, anyway?
It seems to me our buddies and the North American power reliabability board;
(whatever) would say they can't POSSIBLY fail such that power is out for
days. Yet it happened. I think
Dan,
One small addition to your discussion/scenario...
As has been pointed out on this list, the actual rate of changes
in the root zone is on the order of a few per week.
Statistically, that means your 24 hour rollback might, often,
have zero effect. Now compare this to the change rate in
