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Re: [ED-SEC] Policy for Domain Administration


From: Phil Benchoff <benchoff () VT EDU>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:16:49 -0400

You have no way to detect domain names that resolve to your addresses.
It would be a fairly pointless policy.  You can refuse to reverse
one of your addresses to anything but *.brown.edu.  That makes it a
little harder for folks to misrepresent things.  If your worry is about
acceptable use, the domain name doesn't have much to do with it anyway.

Phil

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:57:36PM -0400, Sadler, Connie wrote:
Does anyone have policy for the administration of domain names at your site? For example, here at Brown, we are 
considering a policy requiring "registration" for domains that sit on our address space but that will not have a 
*.brown.edu address. Has anyone gone down this road? Any wisdom on this?

Thanks much!

Connie J. Sadler, CM, CISSP, CISM, GIAC GSLC
Director, IT Security, Brown University

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