On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Toby A. Rider wrote:
> Brian Steele wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone:
> >
> > Got a call from another sysadmin this morning. He said that our DNS server
> > (NT4/SP6a/MS-DNS) was flooding his DNS server (Ultrix?/BIND 8) with queries.
> > He produced this snippet of his log file as proof:
> >
>
> Solution: Replace the NT machine with a machine running a real
> operating system, ie (Solaris7/Sparc), (Alpha/Tru64),
> (Intel/OpenBSD/FreeBSD), (Intel/Linux). Then reformat the NT box and
> send the NT distribution material back to Redmond with a letter
> demanding a refund.
> Sorry, couldn't keep that one to myself :-)
You forgot the reference system for BIND, BSD/OS. It's ported to the others
later.
The ones that I really like are where the Redmond system sends queries for
http://www.somewhere.com/something.asp and image.gif. :-)
Merton Campbell Crockett
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