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Re: DNS issues various

  • From: Ben Browning
  • Date: Thu Oct 24 18:56:13 2002

At 02:44 PM 10/24/2002, Barry Shein wrote:
That sounds to me more like considering the use of sonic repellants
rather than rat poison to keep the vermin out of the relays and
providing latex gloves for removing the dead rats, rather than
designing out the relays the rodents get into entirely.
Given time, rats can chew through concrete. They are smart enough to trip traps before eating the cheese, or to lick the cheese off triggers rather than pulling or chewing, so as not to cross the alarm threshold. They breed faster than you can keep up with them, which not only ensures a generous supply of them but also ensures that they adapt to new environments quickly. They have been known to become resistant to poisons that killed rats a few years before.

In short, your rats versus script kiddies analogy is perfect, but I think you are forgetting that we still have rats everywhere.

~Ben
(who speaks for himself alone here)
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Ben Browning <[email protected]>
The River Internet Access Co.
Network Operations
1-877-88-RIVER http://www.theriver.com