At 1:22 PM -0500 3/22/98, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 08:46:38PM -0500, Dean Robb wrote:
My dear Mr. Anderson...you have an axe to grind, and fact/reality won't sway you. You also can't argue logically, as the above proves. Since you have proven yourself a fool, and I have no time for fools, I'll not respond to any further silly things you want to say. The questions posed are rhetorical, left as an exercise for the reader in determining the validity of your statements.
Round one to Robb, on a TKO.
I concede that I have been outdone by Professor Robb. I am unable to comprehend his logic, and my mail spool isn't large enough to contain his rambling tirades. I would respond point by insensible point to his mail, but I have limited time. Dr Robb (aka God) has the amazing ability to detect incorrect host records from his planet by psychic intuition, and doesn't need to go through the tedium of actually checking with people who are authoritative for a domain or IP, like the rest of us, since he is authoritative. This is not something to be wasted or trifled with. Indeed, one must demand that Internic immediately delete the offending record, and then notify the contacts. In retrospect, I can see that simply sending mail to contacts at host.net and youwant.to is a waste of time for someone who is authoritative. I apologize for not realizing this sooner. He is also right that the only explanation is that someone was out to hijack perhaps.youwant.to. using a newly discovered technique of adding host records to another registry. Previously, DNS experts thought that this would have no effect, and was therefore on the same level as harmless cruft. The fact that youwant.to did not actually appear to be effectively hijacked was part of the clever disguise of the crime. I must admit I did not have the intellect to see through this deception. I am very grateful to Dr. Robb for setting me straight. Also quite clearly, there is absolutely no way this could have been done accidentally. I don't know what I was thinking when I thought it might be possible that host.net just cut the wrong information into one of their own host records. Luckily, we were saved by Professor Robbs fast action and harsh words, in spite of ourselves. I don't know how we can thank him. We should do something since he says he has no time for himself. (Selfless too!) Perhaps we could give him his own Nic contact handle, so he can register his own domain and host records. Or at least so the Internic can more quickly and efficiently implement his pronouncements on incorrect registration information. Also, why don't we just have the various registries get Dean Robb to approve any changes to the database? This would save tremendous effort. --Dean P.S. For a while, I was somewhat alarmed by the prospect of an angry nutcase, but I am now persuaded that Dean Robb is in fact harmless. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean@av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++