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Re:Some DNS lookups causing 5xx errors due to leap second bug by wyager on Sunday January 01, 2017 @12:44AM (#13294827)
Well, yeah, that's not a bad idea. It was kind of Dijkstra's whole thing. The problem is that, at current levels of technology, it's economically better to write cheap buggy software than more expensive bug-free software for almost all consumer applications. We are gradually pushing the optimality curve towards the provably bug-free end of the spectrum, but it will take time.
Re:Some DNS lookups causing 5xx errors due to leap second bug by recursive on Sunday January 01, 2017 @02:20PM (#13296842)
I thought we were pushing the optimality curve toward ever greater volumes of ever buggier code.