Comment by 0x0
13 years ago
It's pretty amazing to see so many bit errors make it through DNS resolution without the client machines crashing instantly; imagine if the bit errors were introduced in RAM containing code or data structures with memory pointers, instead of a domain name!
Thinking about it, I guess such crashes are actually a much larger number.
Everyone who's worked with computers for any length of time has seen inexplicable, unreproducible crashes, lockups or reboots.
We're just conditioned to ignore them if they're neither frequent nor reproducible.
Some machines do crash; see page 19 of: http://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Dinaburg/BH_US_11_Dinabur...