Win2K picking away at my named

[Martin McCormick]

	What exactly is a BCP?  I can guess the P = Procedure.

	At our site, we have posted procedures that customers of
ours can use to turn off that Microsoft nuisance bombing, but
this is a university and we are somewhat limited in what we can
force our public to do.  I would love to forward all
the "update forwarding denied" messages to Bill Gates, himself.
Since March 15, we have received a grand total of 41,552--make
that 3..4..5..6..7 Oh Heck! 41,562
such messages.  I don't fault bind one bit as this is a perfectly
reasonable piece of information to log, and don't get me started
about Microsoft and the way they do business, but suffice it to say that
anywhere else this would be called flagrant network abuse and a 
subject for the police to deal with.

	There have been students in the past who got in to
serious trouble, here, when they wrote code that deliberately
caused systems to run out of resources or to otherwise fail and
the MS strategy reminds me more of sabotage than a useful
service.  Just make the commodity Internet name servers spew
incessant update entries and they'll all cave in and buy!  Ye'
right.  And Churchill surrendered to Hitler after the bombing of
London in 1940, right?

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com writes:
>	Also there is a BCP in the works that should help eleviate this
>	problem once it is published and the relevent patches are installed
>	that implement this BCP.