Re: godaddy spam / abuse suspensions?

["James Hess" <mysidia () gmail com>]

It's also not effective in various situations.
The bad behavior is not disabling abused domains, it's the method used to do it
(by giving no answer instead of actively giving a negative answer).

When a http client asks  recursive resolver A  for an A RR, and no
response is received,
the client will then  go to  recursive resolver B  and make the very
same query again,
and possibly on to recursive resolver C.

One of the secondary/tertiary recursive resolvers may hand the client
a cached response that had been obtained before the registrar took any
action.
If instead recursive resolver A  returned a NXDOMAIN,  that would be
the end of it,
no new queries,  the answer has returned  name does not exist.

The impact of the additional queries can be significant as well.

--
-J

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Andrew Fried <andrew.fried () gmail com> wrote:
> Chances are if the domain has been sandboxed, it was because it was
> involved in some kind of phishing scheme, not spam.  This is the
> typicaly way of mitigating fast flux botnets.  So I don't agree with the
> assessment that this is bad behavior on the part of GoDaddy - to the
> contrary, they are acting quite responsibly.
>
> AF