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Re: lame delegations
From: Patrick Evans <pre () pre org>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:27:06 +0100 (BST)
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote:
In fact, this is a nice DoS in and of itself. Don't like someone? Set up name servers all throughout their address-space, so that they can't use them themselves without jumping through hoops, e.g.,
...
Has anyone seen this DoS in the wild? Strikes me as clinically stupid that nobody has seen this and exploited it in the past...
This happened to us once with the Argentinian registry. Someone, we know not who, had registered the host ns0.magic-moments.com with them, which we happen to use as the primary NS for domains hosted with us. When we went to register a .ar domain for the first time, our app was rejected because the nameserver record didn't belong to us! Was somewhat of a pain in the arse for our lad to have to sort out. -- Patrick Evans - Sysadmin, bran addict and couch potato pre at pre dot org www.pre.org/pre
Current thread:
- lame delegations John O Comeau (Aug 17)
- Re: lame delegations John R. Levine (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Derek J. Balling (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Patrick Evans (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Derek J. Balling (Aug 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: lame delegations John O Comeau (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Joshua Goodall (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Phillip Vandry (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Derek J. Balling (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Joshua Goodall (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Gary E. Miller (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Derek J. Balling (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Joshua Goodall (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Valdis . Kletnieks (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Alex Kamantauskas (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations Joshua Goodall (Aug 18)
- Re: lame delegations John R. Levine (Aug 18)