nanog mailing list archives
Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed?
From: Alex Kamantauskas <alexk () tugger net>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:40:15 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Barry Shein wrote:
In support of this assertion I want to show you an SMTP conversation with what claims to be the Consulate of the Government of Tonga in San Francisco (This San Francisco office is listed as an official Tongan contact point for visas etc by the US State Dept): world% telnet sfconsulate.gov.to 25 Trying 209.24.51.169... Connected to sfconsulate.gov.to. Escape character is '^]'. 220 colo.to SMTP ready, Who are you gonna pretend to be today? VRFY postmaster 500 Bloody Amateur! Proper forging of mail requires recognizable SMTP commands! --------------------
Well, beyond the cutesy error messages, at least relaying is turned off. fz(alexk):[~] telnet sfconsulate.gov.to 25 Trying 209.24.51.169... Connected to sfconsulate.gov.to. Escape character is '^]'. 220 colo.to SMTP ready, Who are you gonna pretend to be today? helo tugger.net 250 colo.to Is thrilled beyond bladder control to meet tugger.net mail from: alexk () tugger net 250 sender is alexk () tugger net, (yeah sure, it's probably forged) rcpt to: alexk () freetld net 550 NOPE UNKNOWN(204.168.18.98), I don't allow unauthorized relaying.
Viewing the web page for the Tongan Consulate in the US (http://sfconsulate.gov.to) reveals nothing but an ad for a software company, this page ends with: Need a domain name? Contact the Kingdom of Tonga Internet domain name registry. -------------------- Consequently, I assert there is no reason for this domain to exist and it should be removed from the root name servers. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs () world std com | http://www.world.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD The World | Public Access Internet | Since 1989 *oo* - Send 'unsubscribe' in the body to 'list-request () inet-access net' to leave. Eat sushi frequently. inet () inet-access net is the human contact address.
-- Alex Kamantauskas Tugger Networks
Current thread:
- Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Barry Shein (Sep 30)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Alex Kamantauskas (Sep 30)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Karl Denninger (Sep 30)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Christopher Neill (Sep 30)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Joe Shaw (Sep 30)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Barry Shein (Sep 30)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Patrick Greenwell (Sep 30)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Alex "Mr. Worf" Yuriev (Sep 30)
- Message not available
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Jay R. Ashworth (Sep 30)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Aaron Goldblatt (Sep 30)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Sep 30)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Nathan J. Mehl (Sep 30)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Barry Shein (Sep 30)
- Re: Is the .to (Tonga) domain completely rogue and should be removed? Alex Kamantauskas (Sep 30)