And I'd like to get back to some sort of wikipedia (or work-alike). I'm wondering if there's a way to link wiki entries to forum threads - so first just some bare boiler-plate, then maybe a forum discussion, which might end up feeding back into the wiki entry. I guess there'd need to be a way of closing off threads to new comment, adding a new thread and making sure both were in the "history" section, otherwise, when looking at the thread for a particular entry you'd need to wade through the whole thread, including now-obsolete comments about an old version. The last post in the closed thread might contain links to the continuation, now post-this-revision, and maybe back to the wiki entry. I've done some work on CSCW (computer supported collaborative work) in the past, so this is a familiar area for me.
Speaking of which, the links in the "links" system seems to be down.
And... the reason I asked the "snap servers only?" question was because I've been seeing some unusual slowdowns / unavailability with DNS servers on the net around the New England / New York area and intermittent very-long delays on internal networks attached to them - and have a completely unjustifiable suspicion that they're under some kind of attack.
A "conspiracy theory" is that they'd be a perfect target for phishers - even someone somewhat network sophisticated (like, well... me) would be fooled by a website that actually had an address of [/i]hpps://paypal.com[/i] - but what if that paypal.com actually, when looked up in DNS returned the IP of some sleaze-ball phisher?
I'm not a DNS expert, but from my long-ago reading of the RFC (time to re-read) it's not designed for security - and even if it was, a big bot-net might be able to mount an effective DOS on the several "authoritative" name servers, for, say, paypal.com, they then might be able to effectively "poison" the other name servers with their bogus IP(s).
So... having only guesses, I thought I'd discuss it with a group of very smart technical folks I already knew - and who I was pretty sure (based on past experience) wouldn't be shy about telling me I was wrong...
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