On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Patrick W Gilmore wrote: > Well configured laptops will not put that much pressure on the roots. > A single misconfigured / broken recursive name server puts a lot more > pressure on the roots than lots of well-configured laptops. > > I guess one could argue that the chance of misconfiguration go up as > the number of systems goes up.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39188319,00.htm Disconnecting six compromised personal computers on Tuesday evening eased the difficulties caused by bogus requests which clogged BigPond's domain name servers (DNS), slowing customer e-mail and Web site access, Telstra said.
