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Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...


From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy () druid net>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:54:17 -0500


On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 17:16:11 +0100
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:54:05AM -0500,
 Andrew Sullivan <andrew () ca afilias info> wrote 
 a message of 29 lines which said:

One could argue that it is less evil to do this at recursive
servers, because people could choose not to use that service by
installing their own full resolvers or whatever.

It depends.

There are three possible ways for an access provider to do it, in
order of ascending nastiness:

Perhaps it is time for resolver libraries to have the ability to equate
certain IP addresses with NXDOMAIN.  At least that way we can recognize
that it is happening and fix our own servers on am individual basis.
Sort of a DNS blacklist.

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