Zone transfers illegal in ND?

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

I guess we should not let our DNS servers talk to anyone in ND for
fear of going to Jail:

from ./ (http://www.circleid.com/posts/811611_david_ritz_court_spam/)

Ever been prosecuted for tracking spam? Running a traceroute? Doing a
zone transfer? Asking a public internet server for public information
that it is configured to provide upon demand?

No? Well, David Ritz has. And amazingly, he lost the case.

Here are just a few of the gems that the court has the audacity to
call "conclusions of law." Read them while you go donate to David's
legal defense fund. He got screwed here, folks, and needs your help.

"Ritz's behavior in conducting a zone transfer was unauthorized within
the meaning of the North Dakota Computer Crime Law." You might not
know what a zone transfer is, but I do. It's asking a DNS server for
all the particular public info it provides about a given domain. This
is a common task performed by system administrators for many purposes.
The judge is saying that DNS zone transfers are now illegal in North
Dakota.

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Read the case  for yourself and decide: http://www.spamsuite.com/node/351

-JP
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