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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 64.94.110.11

I 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.


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