Again, we need user education. We need some sort of law or something that says companies using e-mail/internet must educate their employees on the dangers of such.
But also, I feel user education can help a lot. Companies need to start implementing some sort of formal e-mail and internet usage training when people join the company and a refresher every so often.
Another thing that's expensive and not to be forgotten is the bandwidth of sending all this crap spam. Why should the recipient of these messages bear the costs of the bandwidth essentially wasted because of these messages.
Well.... I've noticed that a lot of crap websites have been popping up with no apparent purpose or reason for existing. I particularly hate those stupid search ones (like the losers that took my last name as a domain name: www.dean.ca - warning lots of popups).
Anyways, I'm seeing more and more of those pointless, worthless sites and I think to myself, "Why did you spend the money on the domain name if this is all you're going to do with it???"
The thing is.... surfing by IP only (without DNS) would require EVERY SITE to have a static IP address, instead of every server.
Many hosting companies, etc. use shared servers. I do as well, in fact, for my websites. For example, my website www.studentprogress.info may have the IP address 65.49.199.172, but the site will only show up if you use the hostname.
Based on the sheer number of websites these days, I'm sure we'd run out of IPv4 space instantly without DNS, and maybe even run out of IPv6 space!
What happens if all the root DNS servers went off? Would the 2nd-tier boxed be able to take over the role, would they eventually clear their tables, or do they only edit what they have, never perge?
AFAIK... the second-tier boxes would only be able to handle whatever records they have cached on them. Other than that, you wouldn't be able to go anywhere unless you know the IP addys (and that's not to mention that many sites are VirtualHosted so that there are many sites on one IP addy)
DNS converts the name (e.g. www.studentprogress.info) into an IP addy (65.49.199.172).
Without DNS, the internet would be like the phone with no phone book.... no way to find the number of the person/company you want to call... and in internet terms, no way to find the IP address of the website you want.
Think about it.... would you (and many users who are new to computers/the internet) find it easier to remember www.studentprogress.info or 65.49.199.172?
My guess would be the hostnames.
I intend to file two patents;)...
1) I patent the internet, and 2) I patent first and last names, so everyone in the world must pay me!!!!
"evil laugh"
I kind of doubt that they will connect that kind of network to the internet, and even if they did, I would expect that they would have some sort of protection....
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Again, we need user education. We need some sort of law or something that says companies using e-mail/internet must educate their employees on the dangers of such.
But also, I feel user education can help a lot. Companies need to start implementing some sort of formal e-mail and internet usage training when people join the company and a refresher every so often.
Another thing that's expensive and not to be forgotten is the bandwidth of sending all this crap spam. Why should the recipient of these messages bear the costs of the bandwidth essentially wasted because of these messages.
Also, what about all the sysadmins that don't secure their e-mail servers. Maybe they don't know how, or maybe they're just too lazy to.
Hmmmm... many of us seem to be "talented" in "finger/typing usage"
Anyways, I'm seeing more and more of those pointless, worthless sites and I think to myself, "Why did you spend the money on the domain name if this is all you're going to do with it???"
Maybe it should be.... All your hosts are resolve to us ;)
Might be.... the way everything is going, India will probably surpass the USA and my home country, Canada, pretty soon.
Many hosting companies, etc. use shared servers. I do as well, in fact, for my websites. For example, my website www.studentprogress.info may have the IP address 65.49.199.172, but the site will only show up if you use the hostname.
Based on the sheer number of websites these days, I'm sure we'd run out of IPv4 space instantly without DNS, and maybe even run out of IPv6 space!
What happens if all the root DNS servers went off? Would the 2nd-tier boxed be able to take over the role, would they eventually clear their tables, or do they only edit what they have, never perge?
AFAIK... the second-tier boxes would only be able to handle whatever records they have cached on them. Other than that, you wouldn't be able to go anywhere unless you know the IP addys
(and that's not to mention that many sites are VirtualHosted so that there are many sites on one IP addy)
DNS converts the name (e.g. www.studentprogress.info) into an IP addy (65.49.199.172). Without DNS, the internet would be like the phone with no phone book.... no way to find the number of the person/company you want to call... and in internet terms, no way to find the IP address of the website you want. Think about it.... would you (and many users who are new to computers/the internet) find it easier to remember www.studentprogress.info or 65.49.199.172? My guess would be the hostnames.
FYI, your link results in a 404... hopefully this one will work better. http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2004/TECH/internet/01/26/mike rowesoft.settle.ap/story.rowe.rowe.jpg
I intend to file two patents ;) ...
1) I patent the internet, and 2) I patent first and last names, so everyone in the world must pay me!!!!
"evil laugh"
I kind of doubt that they will connect that kind of network to the internet, and even if they did, I would expect that they would have some sort of protection....