bear with me, this appears to be about DNS but it's actually about e-mail. maps.vix.com has been gone since 1999 or so. mail-abuse.org is the new thing. i've tried just about everything to get traffic toward the old domain name to stop... right now there's a DNAME but it made no real difference. i've taken the maps.vix.com domain away. i've set its NS to "localhost". i've put long TTL's on both good and bad data. the traffic continues. clearly this is my pennance for starting MAPS, and i hear you giggling about it, but i need some advice. once upon a time, someone more insane than myself wanted to close an RBL and did so by replacing it with a wildcard entry. we all hated that since it caused a lot of mail to bounce. (all mail that would otherwise have been received by that RBL's subscribers, in fact.) it did however have the effect of causing the subscribers to reconfigure their mailers to stop querying the now-dead RBL in question. what's the current thinking on this? oh and even though this isn't about bgp i can put some numbers in so that it will seem on-topic. out of 100K DNS queries received by a vix.com nameserver (which is about five minutes worth), here are the toptalkers for maps.vix.com. (and we all know by now that public shaming and notification won't work, i'm not sure why this is relevant, but it looks good, so here it is.) "thoughts?" 2208 68.216.187.10 2156 192.106.1.99 1348 213.239.240.162 1024 192.106.1.100 808 192.106.1.1 742 216.156.2.29 659 216.55.144.5 594 192.203.136.10 592 80.247.227.1 556 24.111.1.180 535 217.18.160.2 523 87.127.246.222 438 192.106.1.9 430 192.203.136.1 384 69.20.2.227 378 213.249.17.10 355 87.98.222.35 353 216.218.185.16 331 213.251.136.18 319 72.41.223.229 274 216.65.0.148 264 61.194.193.9 257 200.75.51.132 251 213.234.128.211 248 213.251.134.167 222 69.38.230.2 208 219.232.224.89 193 213.249.17.11 178 200.75.51.133 175 204.212.38.12 170 209.244.4.235 167 211.5.1.220 158 200.62.191.36 150 195.178.70.10 147 212.125.128.91 147 192.247.72.254 145 202.180.64.9 144 216.46.201.220 135 164.164.149.13 134 203.97.32.3 132 66.98.240.151 129 84.14.44.250 122 206.40.201.230 118 195.14.50.1 108 211.5.1.219 102 64.234.192.7 98 66.235.216.48 88 200.205.163.168 85 69.20.2.243 85 69.20.2.231 85 146.83.183.94 80 202.239.113.18 79 199.60.229.4 79 140.186.4.4 78 68.125.191.131 78 203.97.32.5 72 80.88.192.200 71 192.189.54.17 70 82.210.64.18 69 217.106.235.214 68 202.229.192.20 66 202.154.3.2 64 217.19.24.18 61 213.203.124.146 61 195.96.33.249 57 168.95.1.128 56 203.94.129.130 56 200.69.193.111 56 168.95.1.133 55 72.3.128.125 54 168.95.1.145 53 216.231.41.2 53 210.119.192.6 52 203.141.32.247 52 168.95.1.132 50 80.80.231.223 50 204.145.230.31 49 213.225.90.203 48 61.129.66.75 48 38.115.131.10 47 195.220.32.99 46 64.60.208.40 46 207.12.35.170 46 168.95.1.129 46 168.95.1.126 44 212.42.168.116 44 209.128.208.11 44 168.95.1.148 43 84.14.176.166 43 200.62.191.38 43 154.11.147.2 42 168.95.1.144 41 168.95.1.131 41 168.95.1.127 40 81.240.254.45 40 218.223.31.252 40 209.82.111.202 39 69.20.2.237 39 217.22.50.3 39 211.72.171.75 39 131.188.3.89 38 203.166.97.12 38 199.201.145.162 38 168.95.1.147 38 12.98.160.66 37 69.36.241.228 37 168.95.1.146 37 131.130.199.155 36 200.31.192.18 34 216.174.17.6 34 209.61.163.233 34 200.207.88.142 34 168.95.1.92 32 80.247.228.1 32 69.60.117.147 31 67.18.97.50 30 202.175.151.10 27 168.95.1.99 26 216.127.136.207 26 212.245.255.2 26 195.2.96.2 25 216.244.191.38 25 212.86.129.142 25 199.64.0.252 24 212.55.197.117 24 199.166.210.2 24 154.11.136.2 23 216.65.0.156 23 198.63.210.55 23 194.204.0.1 22 202.134.64.12 21 84.22.6.100 21 211.125.124.33 21 203.198.7.66 21 203.144.168.6 21 203.116.1.94 21 202.96.102.3 21 158.234.250.70 20 65.106.2.117 20 213.191.73.65 19 66.77.137.9 19 64.65.208.6 19 64.122.97.116 19 203.23.72.2 19 194.106.218.42 17 80.255.128.145 17 168.95.192.81 16 194.242.40.3 16 168.95.192.83 15 69.20.2.225 15 210.104.1.13 15 207.7.4.66 15 207.218.192.26 15 207.106.1.2 15 168.95.192.89 15 168.95.192.84 15 140.123.181.1 14 217.10.104.109 14 216.145.96.10 14 212.45.26.98 14 210.238.234.242 14 210.236.36.2 14 193.50.240.2 14 193.225.16.111 14 168.95.192.86 14 150.186.1.1 13 24.96.32.18 13 218.232.110.37 13 213.130.10.10 13 202.237.13.66 13 161.142.201.17 12 168.95.192.80 11 62.252.64.17 11 213.171.195.168 11 211.125.124.34 11 210.253.165.8 11 203.30.161.1 11 202.45.84.68 10 216.127.136.213 10 212.49.128.65 10 203.10.110.104 10 202.134.99.162 10 192.114.65.50 10 168.95.192.88 10 168.95.192.85 ...