On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 20:24, Robert L Mathews wrote:
At 7/22/04 10:08 AM, Paul Vixie wrote:
the primary beneficiaries of this new functionality are spammers and other malfeasants
I think you're suggesting that such people will register domain names and use them right away (which may be true), and that the lack of a delay enables them to do things they couldn't otherwise do (which isn't).
Actually, this *does* make the spammer's lives a whole lote easier. See my post to Bugtraq from about a year ago titled "Permitting recursion can allow spammers to steal name server resources". It pretty much hinges on the spammers finding an authority that will react quickly to change requests. Worst part is a year after that post I still see this activity taking place. :( HTH, Chris