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

[Jeremy Chadwick]

Okay, so since I've gotten two replies (both which missed my reference
to Fantasia I guess; I'm well-aware of the story involving the
inexperienced magician), I still don't see what the relevancy is between
that and the Belkin situation.  That's why I asked "what does this
phrase even mean?"  To recap:

> > 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.

So if someone could explain, contextually, the relationship between said
story and the situation with Belkin CPEs (I'm aware of what that
issue/bug is), I would appreciate it.  Brittle I get (i.e. very bad
engineering/design choice), "apt to go into Sorcerer's Apprentice Mode"
I don't.

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On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 04:33:22PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> 
> On 7 Oct 2014, at 16:25, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Editing mistake on my part.  2nd paragraph should have read:
> > 
> >> What does this phrase even mean?  I've been in IT and networking since
> >> the early 90s and this is the first time I've heard this phrase.
> 
> I haven't heard anybody use the phrase, but it seems pretty obvious what it means.
> 
> Perhaps it helps to have had children who have passed through an enthusiastic "watch disney movies with daddy" phase.
> 
> 
> Joe