From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 02:55:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Date: 22 Aug 2001 04:54:45 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: <0sDnZRVkz5qL@eisner.encompasserve.org> References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <3B834E5D.B0D26AB1@adaworks.com> <9lvsic$bet9s$1@ID-9852.news.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 998473682 29332 192.135.80.34 (22 Aug 2001 09:48:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12210 comp.lang.c:76063 comp.lang.c++:84776 comp.lang.functional:7608 Date: 2001-08-22T04:54:45-05:00 List-Id: In article <9lvsic$bet9s$1@ID-9852.news.dfncis.de>, "Joachim Durchholz" writes: > Richard Riehle wrote: >> >> The U.S. Navy is discovering just how horrid NT is >> after towing ships back to port because of failures. > > Could you share a reference to a report? The "more official", the better > (there are people who need convincing). I was under the impression that despite the troubles in the press reports, the Navy was taking a full-steam-ahead attitude toward greater dependence on Windows NT for such mission-critical roles.