---- On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Priscilla Oppenheimer
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> What does it mean to plumb host routes? I couldn't decode what
Microsoft is attempting to say in this article. If you can
explain it, that would be great. (The other articles did make
sense. Thanks for the URLs.)<
I was hoping you wouldn't ask that :-)
In all seriousness, I was more than just a little confused by
their terminology. Of course, this has to be taken in the
proper context, coming from an organization that refers to TCP
as the "Transport Control Protocol" ;-)
I did a quick search at MS to see if there were any tell tale
clues. These links seem to be indicative of a methodology of
software engineering to inject a portion of code to solve a
given problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q265/1/12.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/periodic/period98/extreme0598.
htm
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/welcome/dsmsdn/rivard_qa.htm
Of course, I wasn't 100% satisfied that it was totally correct,
so I did a little bit more hunting and came up with the word
usage from Paul Maritz, an old timer from MS :-) He left me
with the impression that "re-plumbing" is the fine art of going
in and fixing code to make it well again:
http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/exec/paul/09-13webdev.asp
Undeterred, I pressed on...I then started to realize, maybe this
was bigger than MS. Maybe this was somehow an open standards
based term that I had not heard about previously. With cursor
in hand, I went to the Internet Encyclopedia at this location
and did a word search for "plumb" :
http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/search.htm
Finally, the end was in sight. There were three hits and out of
a hunch, I opted in for the hit that yielded "100%". What do
you know, but this was the the final definitive word on the
subject. Quoting from RFC 2324, "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control
Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)":
7. Security Considerations
Anyone who gets in between me and my morning coffee should be
insecure.
Unmoderated access to unprotected coffee pots from Internet
users might lead to several kinds of "denial of coffee service"
attacks. The improper use of filtration devices might admit
trojan grounds. Filtration is not a good virus protection
method.
Putting coffee grounds into Internet plumbing may result in
clogged plumbing, which would entail the services of an Internet
Plumber [PLUMB], who would, in turn, require an Internet
Plumber's Helper.
Checking paragraph 9 of the same RFC yielded the reference for
PLUMB. It was indeed Bob Metcalfe, the consummate Internet
Plumber and prognisticator of all things networking.
In short and to recap;
I have absolutely no idea what they meant 8-)
v/r,
Paul Werner
p.s. When I get a free moment, I want to share a story for the
group about the use of subnet zero on Internet hosts and
Internet Gateways and mention why it is *still* a good idea
*not* to use subnet zero on Internet host addressing.
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