Re: DNS entry abuse question

[Sanjay Dani <sanjay () professionals com>]

You can partly address this by affecting some of the services.

You can configure your HTTP/1.1 server to blackhole queries for
molvis.org.

The telnet/ftp services do not give such flexibility (of configuring
per "name" that maps to the IP address the service responds to).

> We recently discovered that bee.net DNS is pointing the name molvis.org at
> our main web server, www.emory.edu, without our permission. The billing
> contact for molvis.org is a student at Emory.
>
> Although we can contact bee.net and the student to address this violation
> of our policy, my question is whether there is anything we can do in
> general to prevent people from pointing DNS names at computers at Emory
> without our permission. Presumably there is great opportunity for mischief
> here, in that someone could register a domain name such as emorysucks.org
> and point it at our web site.
>
> If this is the wrong place to ask this question, please accept my apology
> and suggest an alternate place.
>
> Thanks for any advice you can give.
>
> Peter Day
> Emory.edu administrative contact
> Information Technology Division
> N. Decatur Bldg Suite 300      | E-mail: ospwd () emory edu
> Emory University               | PHONE:  +1 404 727-7678
> Atlanta, GA 30322              | FAX:    +1 404 727-0817