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North Dakota Judge Rules That DNS Zone Transfers Are Illegal
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:12:52 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Al Iverson, Via CircleID. [snip] Ever been prosecuted for tracking spam? Running a traceroute? Doing a zone transfer? Asking a public internet server for public information that it is configured to provide upon demand? No? Well, David Ritz has. And amazingly, he lost the case. Here are just a few of the gems that the court has the audacity to call conclusions of law. Read them while you go donate to Davids legal defense fund. He got screwed here, folks, and needs your help. Ritzs behavior in conducting a zone transfer was unauthorized within the meaning of the North Dakota Computer Crime Law. You might not know what a zone transfer is, but I do. Its asking a DNS server for all the particular public info it provides about a given domain. This is a common task performed by system administrators for many purposes. The judge is saying that DNS zone transfers are now illegal in North Dakota. [snip] More: http://www.circleid.com/posts/811611_david_ritz_court_spam/ - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHjp2Aq1pz9mNUZTMRAsB0AKDt4q55y8/dowjr4r5y13kFLuDYngCfaErX UW0SEryo+pdHwg8oEJACNDQ= =kTII -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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