23 Nov
1998
23 Nov
'98
11:20 p.m.
FWIW, Msen has been blasting the NIC with phone calls and faxes as we find lame delegations. In several instances, these are domains that registered to use us without our permission and in some of them, its a spamming domain.
i figure it just adds to the nic's overload. so, when i find a domain which has been lamely delegated to one of my servers, i just put in an authoritative zone for it with a short ttl soa and a wildcard mx * MX 0 some.schmuck.lame.delegated.to.the.host.name. or the analogous PTR for in-addr zones. it immediately stops any overload on my server and usually gets fixed fairly quickly, no muss no fuss. randy