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What do we learn from this? If you provide a public-facing API or service for direct use by applications over the net, use a unique host name / DNS entry for it
by lazyjones 13y ago
What do we learn from this? If you provide a public-facing API or service for direct use by applications over the net, use a unique host name / DNS entry for it so you can point it elsewhere or delete it at leisure. DNS entries are cheap, millions of HTTP hits might cost a bit more.
- shabble 13y agoFor even less fun, there have been numerous incidents of consumer accesspoints/routers hardcoding NTP servers by IP address[1][2]. [1] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20060408150213/http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/ http://web.archive.org/web/20060408150213/http://people.free...