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Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 10:37:20 -0700
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 9:57 AM Jim <mysidia () gmail com> wrote:
A major concern would be if the IP address were eventually re-assigned to something else that ended up reporting false answers due to a malicious or misconfigured DNS service.
Hi Jim, That's one reason I suggested intentionally making it a false responder for the final year of its post-service hold. Return wildcard A and AAAA records for all queries pointing to a web site which responds to any URL with, "Hey buddy, your DNS software is so grossly out of date that now it's broken and will stay broken until you fix it." Anybody still sending queries after that gets what they get and deserves it -- as long as the time that passes until the final year is long enough that only the most reckless and incompetent users are still sending queries. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin bill () herrin us https://bill.herrin.us/
Current thread:
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Jan Schaumann via NANOG (Jun 01)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Wes Hardaker (Jun 01)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 01)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Masataka Ohta (Jun 01)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Jim (Jun 02)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 02)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Matthew Petach (Jun 02)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 01)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Matt Corallo (Jun 03)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 03)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Matt Corallo (Jun 03)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 03)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Wes Hardaker (Jun 01)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Izaac (Jun 04)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 04)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Mark Andrews (Jun 04)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net William Herrin (Jun 04)
- Re: New addresses for b.root-servers.net Masataka Ohta (Jun 07)