[Outages-discussion] [outages] Belkin [heartbeat.belkin.com]

[Jeremy Chadwick]

"Sorcerer's Apprentice Mode"

What does this phrase even mean?
the early 90s and this is the first time I've heard this phrase.

My first inclination was to say "Yes, the router went into Night on Bald
Mountain mode, encountering Chernabog" (Fantasia reference for anyone
old enough...).

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc at koitsu.org |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                http://jdc.koitsu.org/ |
| Making life hard for others since 1977.             PGP 4BD6C0CB |

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 01:04:58AM +0700, Roland Dobbins via Outages wrote:
> 
> On Oct 8, 2014, at 12:57 AM, Frank Bulk via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
> 
> > Why do that if Belkin is up and running again? 
> 
> So that it doesn't recur if things get dorked up, again?  It's a great DDoS vector - take down that IP, wedge every affected Belkin CPE on the Internet.
> 
> This kind of thing is extremely brittle, and apt to go into Sorcerer's Apprentice Mode without warning.
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