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RE: macomnet weird dns record


From: "Chuck Church" <chuckchurch () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 09:45:00 -0400

Comic Book Guy would probably declare:

"Worst Naming Convention Ever"

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM
To: Nikolay Shopik
Cc: <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: macomnet weird dns record

Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad Best practice
says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and
hex 

Colin

On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:09, Nikolay Shopik <shopik () inblock ru> wrote:

How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records.

On 14/04/15 15:36, Colin Johnston wrote:
never saw hex in host dns records before.
host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.0xfffffff0.macomnet.net

range is blocked non the less since bad traffic from Russia network
ranges.

Colin



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