[ratelimits] false positive text

[Joe Abley]

On 2013-05-16, at 15:38, Matthijs Mekking <matthijs at nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:

> Response rate limit tries to limit the amount of DNS responses triggered by attack queries.

... and in this context, "attack" really means "excessive" or "unnecessary". These are queries that which can be dropped without reducing the quality of DNS service intended by the nameserver operator to be provided by the nameserver. They may result from an attack, or they might have some other cause.

You go on to characterise "false positive", "false negative" etc in a way that matches my understanding of those terms.


Joe