May 15, 2003

fat-finger

vt.

1. To introduce a typo while editing in such a way that the resulting manglification of a configuration file does something useless, damaging, or wildly unexpected. NSI fat-fingered their DNS zone file and took half the net down again.

2. More generally, any typo that produces dramatically bad results.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:48 AM

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