On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:59:22 -0400 (EDT) Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com> wrote:
Returning 127.0.0.2 on everything would indeed be an ugly way to bow out, but its been done before. Another RBL went out the same way previously, can't remember which one (was it orbz?)
it was more complicated than that. orbs went away without a clean shutdown plan, and one of the secondary DNS operators started answering with 127.0.0.2 to try and get people to stop querying his server. it worked, although with non-trivial pain attached. richard -- Richard Welty rwelty@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security