so i hit www.internic.net today, looking for contact information for a customer of mine, and lo and behold, it's some AlterNIC crap! come to find out, my name server has incorrect information for www.internic.net: piglet [~] ? nslookup www.internic.net Server: mixer.visi.com Address: 204.73.178.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.internic.net Address: 207.51.48.15 according to my cache dump, this information came from AlterNIC. $ORIGIN INTERNIC.net. www 146598 IN A 207.51.48.15 ;Cr=addtnl [204.94.42.2] piglet [~] ? nslookup 204.94.42.2 Server: mixer.visi.com Address: 204.73.178.1 Name: aragorn.alternic.net Address: 204.94.42.2 piglet [~] ? whois 204.94.42 ATC dba ALTERNIC.NET (NETBLK-SEANET02-ALTERNIC01) SEANET02-ALTERNIC01 204.94.42.0 - 204.94.42.255 i do not have ANY AlterNIC hints in my root cache. why is AlterNIC poisoning my nameserver? kevin brintnall <kbrint@visi.com> network engineer, vector internet E3979560EF3E00B7 36D422A3C0F3741C
kevin brintnall writes:
so i hit www.internic.net today, looking for contact information for a customer of mine, and lo and behold, it's some AlterNIC crap!
A wide variety of mischief has been practiced of late by Eugene Kashpureff and company. If you want to be immune to it, upgrade to bind 4.9.6 (or 8.1.1) ASAP. Perry
A wide variety of mischief has been practiced of late by Eugene Kashpureff and company. If you want to be immune to it, upgrade to bind 4.9.6 (or 8.1.1) ASAP.
Should we ask Vixie to add them to the black hole feed
as much as i would love to just remove from the net anyone i disagree with, i don't leglislate generic morality using the black hole routing feed. the only people on it, now or ever, are those who persist in sending or relaying unsolicited nonpersonal e-mail. injecting intentionally bad dns data is perhaps even a greater crime, but i refuse to pollute the black hole list with entities who aren't spammers.
(which he never seems to feed, sigh)?
you don't know the half of it. i've got 25 people receiving the feed and another 50 to add.
In message <199707140324.UAA04837@wisdom.rc.vix.com>, Paul A Vixie writes:
(which he never seems to feed, sigh)?
you don't know the half of it. i've got 25 people receiving the feed and another 50 to add.
Paul, maybe you should ask some of the current 25 people benefiting from the feed to share some risk, by allowing them to redsitribute it to selected parties. I realize the additional legal issues with allowing redistribution, but personally, I'm getting pretty sick of the 6-10 spams a day I now get, and unfortunatly the best filtering solutions I have can't help all hosts. We have almost universally received positive responses to our manual blocking of spammers, but all this has done is forced spammers to using relaying, and that problem doesn't look to be fixed for another 1-2 years at the current rate. --- Jeremy Porter, Freeside Communications, Inc. jerry@fc.net PO BOX 80315 Austin, Tx 78708 | 1-800-968-8750 | 512-458-9810 http://www.fc.net
From: kevin brintnall <kbrint@visi.com> i do not have ANY AlterNIC hints in my root cache. why is AlterNIC poisoning my nameserver? Trying to resolve a lame delegation to a server that has alternic stuff in its named.ca file can do that.... ---Rob
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