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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: YP and the domain system
Message-ID: <2117@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 89 21:52:29 GMT
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Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Organization: Metaprogrammers International
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vaf@VALINOR.STANFORD.EDU (Vince Fuller) writes:

>A while ago, there was a discussion of the pitfalls involved in setting-up a
>YP system in the Internet environment. Specifically, the discussion described
>the scenario under which YP can (and does) cause Internet domain servers to
>be flooded with bogus requests. Does a summary of this discussion exist?

I would also be interested in seeing such a recapitulation ...

>	Vince Fuller, Stanford Networking

-- richard

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