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RE: Bogon stupidity... warning... operational post.

  • From: Hannigan, Martin
  • Date: Thu Dec 22 14:09:39 2005

> 
> 
> On 12/22/05 1:35 PM, "Christopher L. Morrow" 
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Robert Boyle wrote:
> >> 
> >>> At 12:56 PM 12/22/2005, you wrote:
> >>> P.S. 204/8 was not the only problem, there were problems 
> with 128/8 and
> >>>> 133/8 as well so my apologies to people who may have 
> noticed problems
> >>>> overnight.
> >>> 
> >>> 199.128.0.0/9 too.
> >> 
> >> Yes, legacy blocks (with large number of smaller 
> allocations) whenever
> >> datasize during processing exceeded certain amount. The 
> bad data was
> >> present at 2 of 4 servers for duration of the night but 
> dns was being
> > 
> > so 50+% of your system was hozed for some long period of 
> time :( bad.
> > 
> >> changes same time as well, so I don't know how much affect 
> there was
> >> but apparently considerable; this is the most serious 
> problem in months.
> >> 
> > 
> > 'most serious problem in months' ... this has happened in 
> smaller chunks
> > during the past 'months' ? yikes... is that noted on your 
> site so users of
> > the 'service' will know what sorts of 'problems' they might be
> > encountering due to their reliance on this 'service'?
> 
> I wonder how many problems cymru has had in that period? I'm 
> guess not so
> many...

I mean this in a nice way, really. Look. Smiley. :)

Use a blacklist, pay the price. I'd like to know how many
people actually went to their boss and said "It was that guy
Williams fault even though I control and am responsible for the
network.....!"

-M<