For the short term, there was little choice. The Net moves faster than the courts. In the longer term I agree with you.
Verisign claimed that they are doing this to help users by eliminating cryptic DNS errors. These measures will demonstrate the Net's disapproval of the wildcards, and show that they are not "helping". And if they attempt to circumvent the new BIND (with new IP's, wildcard NS records, etc.), it will help prove that they lied about their motives.
They are in the business of measuring Net availability. They should learn to set the scale on their instruments before they connect them to the circuit. And they should back off when availability drops because they might be the cause of the drop. If their traffic represents more than about 10x that caused by an individual customer, then as a "juror" I'd think they were being irresponsible.
You are in the business of supplying Net availability. You should install circuit breakers. Too many connection from one host/network? Start dropping packets. Too much raw incoming traffic from one source? Get on the horn quickly to the netadmin.
Your customers don't care who's at fault, they want what they paid for. But they can't expect miracles.
Uh, no. A "null-route" means there is no route. Not "drop packets do this destination" but "there is no way to reach this destination". That will result in an ICMP "destination unreachable" message being sent back to the originator
OK, but that's very similar to an ICMP-reject which implies that the domain does exist.
which should be interpreted properly by any program worth a damn. Not really. "destination unreachable" implies that it could be a temporary problem and that a retry is appropriate. For example, another reader pointed out that MTAs will keep retrying for a few days, or until it gets an NXDOMAIN.
That would leave browsers waiting to timeout. ICMP-Rejects wouldn't be much better.
We'll need to hack the resolver libraries and/or DNS servers to translate 64.94.110.11 into "no such domain". Verisign will add some more numbers, and soon we'll have blacklists.
I remember toggling in the boot loader on the PDP/8 in high school and playing Nim via the toggles of the GE-625's at my father's office.
About 15 years ago, I had to start up a "newer" PDP/11 which had a keypad and numeric display instead of toggles and lights. After about an hour, I found the machine instructions to boot it. Then someone came in and showed me that there was a single button that autoloaded the boot code. Doh!.
One word...payola. The only advantage RIAA companies have over the indies is the ability to get the music onto the PUBLIC airwaves. How do they do that? They're in bed with ClearChannel who's in bed with the FCC. The RIAA are a bunch of thieves. If you can't see how they do it, then you are just naive.
9/11 couldn't have been any more advantageous to Bush and company if they had planned it themselves.
It gave them the chance to shake up the UN, the oil cartels, and congress and to throw our Constitution out the window. Now they get to put the pieces back together as they see fit. It gave Dubya the ability to convince the American people to invade Iraq. Saddam was no threat to us. Bush wanted control of the oil and to get revenge for Saddam trying to kill daddy Bush. Lots of military spending means lots of opportunity for kickbacks on contracts. And we can only wonder what other crap he's getting away with while our attention is averted.
I honestly believe that they knew something big was about to happen and welcomed it with open arms. Look at the power Hitler gained as soon as the Reichstag had been burned. It was a catalyst for change. And after all, the loss of a few thousand lives is insignificant when you're creating a new world order.
On the bright side, the kneejerk approval ratings he had just after 9/11 are gone. His popularity continues to slide. I think he'll be out in 16 months.
Notice that New England (almost as good as the old one), true to form, separated and remained intact. I'm not sure which politico to thank for putting the kaibosh on merging grids with NY.
That was their plan all along. Didn't you know the goatse guy is Steve Ballmer?
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It reminds me of waiting for the old televisions to warm up.
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Bubble memory was serial (internally). A rotating field moved the stream thru bubble detectors and generators. It was similar to mercury delay lines with bubbles instead of sound pulses.
Bah. Mosfrn elecfonics a,e all made with spe*&cial circuits to protec(R)t aga(C)inst high levels of ESD. I have a Van dYer Graaaf generator sitting 8 inches away from the expo(C)sed mo(C)56;bo in my pc.
Give that man a cigar, and something to light it with!
What was the mistake that was made on 9/11? If you believe in the 80/20 rule, there's just one answer.
Open cockpit doors.
It should probably be called the 99/1 rule in that case. A closed cockpit would have been enough to prevent the destruction of high value ground targets and 1000s of lives. It would have reduced the potential loss by at least one order of magnitude, probably two.
And the irony is that airline security experts already understood that. Just ask El Al.
"I understand that, at the time Clippy emerged, he was the only development that had its origins in Microsoft Research, something which they were mighty embarrassed by (and which was not really their fault)."
I don't understand what you mean by "not really their fault". Did Clippy write himself?
On Linuxtoday.com there's an article by a guy who says SCO won't sell him "the license" because apparently their salespeople don't know what they are supposed to be selling. Are they afraid to sell small licenses for exactly this reason?
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"And we did it to ourselves."
For the short term, there was little choice. The Net moves faster than the courts. In the longer term I agree with you.
Verisign claimed that they are doing this to help users by eliminating cryptic DNS errors. These measures will demonstrate the Net's disapproval of the wildcards, and show that they are not "helping". And if they attempt to circumvent the new BIND (with new IP's, wildcard NS records, etc.), it will help prove that they lied about their motives.
Here's a common sense reaction.
They are in the business of measuring Net availability. They should learn to set the scale on their instruments before they connect them to the circuit. And they should back off when availability drops because they might be the cause of the drop. If their traffic represents more than about 10x that caused by an individual customer, then as a "juror" I'd think they were being irresponsible.
You are in the business of supplying Net availability. You should install circuit breakers. Too many connection from one host/network? Start dropping packets. Too much raw incoming traffic from one source? Get on the horn quickly to the netadmin.
Your customers don't care who's at fault, they want what they paid for. But they can't expect miracles.
Uh, no. A "null-route" means there is no route. Not "drop packets do this destination" but "there is no way to reach this destination". That will result in an ICMP "destination unreachable" message being sent back to the originator
OK, but that's very similar to an ICMP-reject which implies that the domain does exist.
which should be interpreted properly by any program worth a damn.
Not really. "destination unreachable" implies that it could be a temporary problem and that a retry is appropriate. For example, another reader pointed out that MTAs will keep retrying for a few days, or until it gets an NXDOMAIN.
Doh! I forgot about that.
SMTP is ok, for now at least. They still return NXDOMAIN on MX records.
Other apps could be screwed by having to timeout.
"put your effort into beating Verisign into submission to common decency."
Agreed.
That would leave browsers waiting to timeout. ICMP-Rejects wouldn't be much better.
We'll need to hack the resolver libraries and/or DNS servers to translate 64.94.110.11 into "no such domain". Verisign will add some more numbers, and soon we'll have blacklists.
I remember toggling in the boot loader on the PDP/8 in high school and playing Nim via the toggles of the GE-625's at my father's office.
About 15 years ago, I had to start up a "newer" PDP/11 which had a keypad and numeric display instead of toggles and lights. After about an hour, I found the machine instructions to boot it. Then someone came in and showed me that there was a single button that autoloaded the boot code. Doh!.
"I fail to see the RIAA stealing from anyone."
One word...payola. The only advantage RIAA companies have over the indies is the ability to get the music onto the PUBLIC airwaves. How do they do that? They're in bed with ClearChannel who's in bed with the FCC. The RIAA are a bunch of thieves. If you can't see how they do it, then you are just naive.
9/11 couldn't have been any more advantageous to Bush and company if they had planned it themselves.
It gave them the chance to shake up the UN, the oil cartels, and congress and to throw our Constitution out the window. Now they get to put the pieces back together as they see fit. It gave Dubya the ability to convince the American people to invade Iraq. Saddam was no threat to us. Bush wanted control of the oil and to get revenge for Saddam trying to kill daddy Bush. Lots of military spending means lots of opportunity for kickbacks on contracts. And we can only wonder what other crap he's getting away with while our attention is averted.
I honestly believe that they knew something big was about to happen and welcomed it with open arms. Look at the power Hitler gained as soon as the Reichstag had been burned. It was a catalyst for change. And after all, the loss of a few thousand lives is insignificant when you're creating a new world order.
On the bright side, the kneejerk approval ratings he had just after 9/11 are gone. His popularity continues to slide. I think he'll be out in 16 months.
Notice that New England (almost as good as the old one), true to form, separated and remained intact. I'm not sure which politico to thank for putting the kaibosh on merging grids with NY.
That was their plan all along. Didn't you know the goatse guy is Steve Ballmer?
It reminds me of waiting for the old televisions to warm up.
Bubble memory was serial (internally). A rotating field moved the stream thru bubble detectors and generators. It was similar to mercury delay lines with bubbles instead of sound pulses.
This tech looks like it's actual RAM.
Robosweep to the rescue!
Bah. Mosfrn elecfonics a,e all made with spe*&cial circuits to protec(R)t aga(C)inst high levels of ESD. I have a Van dYer Graaaf generator sitting 8 inches away from the expo(C)sed mo(C)56;bo in my pc.
Give that man a cigar, and something to light it with!
What was the mistake that was made on 9/11? If you believe in the 80/20 rule, there's just one answer.
Open cockpit doors.
It should probably be called the 99/1 rule in that case. A closed cockpit would have been enough to prevent the destruction of high value ground targets and 1000s of lives. It would have reduced the potential loss by at least one order of magnitude, probably two.
And the irony is that airline security experts already understood that. Just ask El Al.
"She got uncomfortable, and began to talk about what a great company Microsoft was..."
Typical Borg reaction.
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"I understand that, at the time Clippy emerged, he was the only development that had its origins in Microsoft Research, something which they were mighty embarrassed by (and which was not really their fault)."
I don't understand what you mean by "not really their fault". Did Clippy write himself?
"So, he went on vacation."
He probably needed one.
Little do they know he's actually a double agent working for the Secret Chimps Organization.
That is a gem!
On Linuxtoday.com there's an article by a guy who says SCO won't sell him "the license" because apparently their salespeople don't know what they are supposed to be selling. Are they afraid to sell small licenses for exactly this reason?