Viss15h ago

hey so here's a cool fun new thing to add to your threat model

something that polls your UPS to measure voltage, is somehow, inadvertently causing the network management card in it to puke, and when that thing reboots or crashes, it takes the UPS down with it (it reboots also) - and everything hung off that ups .. loses power. which includes your dns server.

so fucktardian windows machines and android devices that think the network is down if they cant resolve dns all disconnect from the lan

Show threadViss15h ago
if i ever meet the person responsible for the logic of "if a windows machine cant resolve dns it disconnects itself from the wireless network" its gonna be quite a spectacle
Show threadJ.P. Stewart

@Viss I can introduce you if you want. In reality this logic came from dozens over 20yr of development.

Also. A. It’s only after 30s of repeated failed attempts right? And B. It sends an immediate reconnect, right?

Anything else is unexpected.
The reason at the time was bad state machines in third party WiFi drivers which hang at times.

(Diagnostic Data Viewer in the store filtered to *ncsi* I think should show the relevant events.)

*now retired, but I wrote those telemetry events*

11:26pmTusker