On 04/11/2010 06:02 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > Warren Bailey <[email protected]> writes: > > >> Are we thinking its going to get worse?? >> > i am. looking at some local passive dns data (generated from ISC SIE), > we find the following single bit errors by anchoring some searches at > the known names and addresses of the f-root server. DNS does not have > its own crc or checksum, it relies on UDP and IP for error detection > (in which it is weak or nonexistant). i think it's probably time to > formalize the study of bit errors in DNS, and then see if we can make > a sensible mapping between what we observe and what the solar flux is. > > because if they're related and we're going to have a strong solar cycle > then everybody's insurance rates are about to go up. >
And to top it all off, how many picojoules are stored in a modern ram cell compared to the same during the last sunspot peak. There is a hidden cost to memory density growth here... -- Pete
