Yes, he has been informed. Or maybe he found it here (or somewhere else himself).
According to David Waitzman himself, this is indeed the first implementation of his "joke" RFC. (However, someone in Australia asked him about it some years ago, but he never heard back from them again, so it's likely they cancelled.)
Actually, all transmitted ping replies did come through. If you read the story on the page, it says that the replying end had six pigeons, and two escaped without payload.
The reason we transmitted 9 pings is that we had to keep ping running to be able to feed the replies back. If we had stopped it we wouldn't get the stats.
A funny little anecdote: One of the last frames (i.e. pigeons) we released actually crashed into a neighbor's bathroom window, after which Alan Cox himself commented; "Oh no, windows causing problems again." - Just thought I'd share that.:)
(BTW, I'm not officially a BLUG member, but was cordially invited by a friend of mine - thanks Karlmag! And hi mom!;)
Sounds to me like a bad idea.
Me and a few friends set up a tiny website where we could exchange ideas, and store tidbits
of useful information for posterity.
One of us (not me!) used a browser which
had the "feature" (bug) that it could
cache an entire website.
All the articles also had a "Delete
article" link. You do the math.
Luckily, we also had a calendar in there,
in which the aggressive cacher got lost.;-)
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Yes, he has been informed. Or maybe he found it here (or somewhere else himself).
According to David Waitzman himself, this is indeed the first implementation of his "joke" RFC. (However, someone in Australia asked him about it some years ago, but he never heard back from them again, so it's likely they cancelled.)
Actually, all transmitted ping replies did come through. If you read the story on the page, it says that the replying end had six pigeons, and two escaped without payload.
The reason we transmitted 9 pings is that we had to keep ping running to be able to feed the replies back. If we had stopped it we wouldn't get the stats.
A funny little anecdote: One of the last frames (i.e. pigeons) we released actually crashed into a neighbor's bathroom window, after which Alan Cox himself commented; "Oh no, windows causing problems again." - Just thought I'd share that. :)
(BTW, I'm not officially a BLUG member, but was cordially invited by a friend of mine - thanks Karlmag! And hi mom!;)
Sounds to me like a bad idea. Me and a few friends set up a tiny website where we could exchange ideas, and store tidbits of useful information for posterity. One of us (not me!) used a browser which had the "feature" (bug) that it could cache an entire website. All the articles also had a "Delete article" link. You do the math.
Luckily, we also had a calendar in there, in which the aggressive cacher got lost. ;-)