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Re: What *are* they smoking?
From: Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:24:24 -0500
Once upon a time, Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> said:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:56:57AM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote:$ host does.really-not-exist.net does.really-not-exist.net has address 64.94.110.11I would say time to null route this horribly inappropriate scam, but it looks like a few cable modem providers have already done so, and I am no longer seeing it in the .com zone (but I still see it under .net).
Someone has already brought up the idea on the BIND list of modifying BIND to recognize this response and converting it back to NXDOMAIN. Blackholing the IP means that your customers will get an error that the site is unreachable, not that it does not exist. BTW: I got a "content filter" message bounce in response to my other post on this topic - anyone else get that? I didn't see anything in my message that looked filter-worthy to me. -- Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
Current thread:
- Re: What *are* they smoking?, (continued)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Alex Lambert (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Steven M. Bellovin (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Marc Slemko (Sep 15)
- RE: What *are* they smoking? John Ferriby (Sep 15)
- RE: What *are* they smoking? Fred Baker (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? David B Harris (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? mike harrison (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Chris Adams (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Christopher X. Candreva (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Chris Adams (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Chris Adams (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Tomas Lund (Sep 15)
- Re: What *are* they smoking? Mans Nilsson (Sep 16)
- RE: What *are* they smoking? Matthew Kaufman (Sep 16)
- RE: What *are* they smoking? Bruce Campbell (Sep 16)
- Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?) William Allen Simpson (Sep 16)
- Re: Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?) Eric Gauthier (Sep 16)
- Re: Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?) Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 16)