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Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)

70 pointsby walrus01yesterday at 8:33 PM8 commentsview on HN

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ctippetttoday at 1:20 AM

  > Are incidents such as this a likely side-effect of ubiquitous, low-cost, perhaps even disposable Internet hosts?

The whole write-up is excellent. I was already impressed by the author, but the prescience of this comment... wow.
spindump8930today at 12:22 AM

This is likely being discussed because it's relevant to this similar modern day story involving Tesla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686766

rkagereryesterday at 9:49 PM

It struck me how much more useful information the graphs and diagrams here provide over their flashier counterparts you commonly see today.

The old-fashioned aesthetic almost feels like a cue what I'm looking at won't be slop.

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YesThatTom2yesterday at 11:36 PM

The talk he gave at Usenix LISA was one of the best ever!

(LISA is now SRECon)