Re: macomnet weird dns record

[Colin Johnston <colinj () gt86car org uk>]

so fix the spam hosts, don’t mask the problem and make more complicated for folks trying their best to solve

Colin

> On 14 Apr 2015, at 15:09, Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov () gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hello, Colin!
>
> We use hexademical numbers in PTR for VPS/Servers because PTR's like
> "host-87.118.199.240.domain.ru" so often banned by weird antispam
> systems  by mask \d+\.\d+\.\d+\d+ as home ISP subnets which produce
> bunch of spam.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Colin Johnston <colinj () gt86car org uk> wrote:
> > Hi Nikolay, I have obvious hit a cultural nerve here, if so I am sorry.
> > At least there is communication on some level, Chinese colleagues would not even bother to respond to aid debug.
> >
> > Be that as it may, why not use either normal decimal numbers or normal characters to show what a normal person would 
> > understand instead of having to convert the shown output ?
> >
> > Colin
> >
> >
> > > On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:54, Nikolay Shopik <shopik () inblock ru> wrote:
> > >
> > > Are Roman numerals allowed in DNS? Because I know some people also do them.
> > >
> > > dig -x 217.199.208.190
> > >
> > >
> > > On 14/04/15 16:45, Chuck Church wrote:
> > > > Comic Book Guy would probably declare:
> > > >
> > > > "Worst Naming Convention Ever"
> > > >
> > > > Chuck
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM
> > > > To: Nikolay Shopik
> > > > Cc: <nanog () nanog org>
> > > > Subject: Re: macomnet weird dns record
> > > >
> > > > Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad Best practice
> > > > says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and
> > > > hex
> > > >
> > > > Colin
> > > >
> > > > > On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:09, Nikolay Shopik <shopik () inblock ru> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records.
> > > > >
> > > > > On 14/04/15 15:36, Colin Johnston wrote:
> > > > > > never saw hex in host dns records before.
> > > > > > host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.0xfffffff0.macomnet.net
> > > > > >
> > > > > > range is blocked non the less since bad traffic from Russia network
> > > > ranges.
> > > > > > Colin
>
>
>
> -- 
> Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov