On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 07:08, Carter Ames wrote:
> I expect Microsoft to step up to the plate and manage
> my expectations about their product, and make them
> better as time goes along. Granted, we are typically
> fighting things after they happen, but there's got to
> be a way to create a distributed application that runs
> random strings into open ports to test products. -
> Take the Distributed.net concept. Instead of looking
> for intelligence elsewhere in our solar system, how
> about trying to look for it here on earth? (Please,
> no offense to Seti, I love it)
There are a number of programs that do this. (As Crispin pointed out.)
The problem is usually not at the connect part of the protocol however,
but deeper in the negotiation and/or communication phase. To do a
proper test, you have to have a version of the protocol and throw
garbage at every possible part of the transaction, not just the front
end.
If you are going to egg a house, you don't just hit one side of it.
--
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"...new-fangled and artificial treasons have been the great
engines by which violent factions, the natural offspring of
free government, have usually wreaked their alternate
malignity on each other...."
- James Madison in The Federalist No. 43,
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