On Wednesday 31 May 2006 18:14, Eben King wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 2006, steve szmidt wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 May 2006 16:22, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> >> At one point I _swear_ *.0 was used as a broadcast, and was common on a
> >> number of IP stacks.
> >
> > Hmm interesting, I never ran into it. But with MS anything is possible.
> > They tried to take over the Internet with their bogus standards,
>
> <cough>.NET</cough>
What I'm talking about is their attempt to replace DNS back in the -90's (with
WINS, which is a failure even by their standards) once they realized this was
something new and popular which they did not control. (And they did take
quite a while for them to catch on the idea of the Internet.)
They also started to use the word domain to reflect a MS domain, not at all
working the same as a domain on the Internet.
One of the many 'nice' things they have done is to adopt this really good
network authentication protocol for securing a campus type layout, a protocol
called Kerberos. It has a few unused bytes at the end of it which is reserved
for future use.
Only the MS "implementation" uses those bytes in such a way that it's
incompatible with standard Kerberos. This means that if you have a Unix box
it will not work with the windows version, but it will work the other way
around... Swell, is it not?!
Somebody got a nice promotion for that one I'm sure.
--Steve Szmidt
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