Wedge

Well, I'm not ruling out such an attack. I have seen smaller-scale attacks on individual DNS providers in the past, so such an attack on the root servers has never been a question of if, merely when.

But if they're expecting it, they can perform cache lengthening to mitigate around it - though that will in itself cause all kinds of problems, it's not a cureall and should not be considered as such.

There are enough layers of caching that DNS won't stop immediately. But if the attack is sustained (8+, or even 24+ hours), those caches will naturally expire.

I've moved a board from admin, moved it back.

There were other places that weren't quite right - namely the jumpto could be misordered at times and so could move-topics. But the category page is still wrong, even if everything else is correct, which says to me there is something wrong with the category listing page itself. I'm doing some other oddments tonight, so I'll look at that code too.

I'm trying to do that a bit more, hence tromping around Brighton today. Photos are in the process of being uploaded in an experiment trying out Tumblr.

I don't think that's it. I think there is a viable and credible problem here, but until now there's never been a reason for them to attack.

It's OK, I'm too zombified from walking around miles and miles of Brighton trying to take pictures to think too clearly anyway >_>

In absence of having a real 'own/any' pair of permissions, it's using 'is it the owner' or 'can they moderate the forum'. That's really what I'm stating there, it made sense in my head >_>

Egad, I need sleep *yawn*

Sounds good to me :)

I start off assuming people don't have a clue until they prove otherwise, simply because that's a simpler and easier way to view the world, and sadly I keep finding it's all too accurate, given how many people don't even read what's in front of them.Dogbert is a regular character in the Dilbert strip, he is a dog, very cynical. Often a 'management consultant' of sorts, or world ruler, amongst other things.