Problems with NS*.worldnic.com

Tue Apr 26 13:51:20 UTC 2005

Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
> lots of folk sent email to me and not the list. most report worldnic
> responding with tcp 53 and not udp. would love to hear confirmation
> on list. can think of a number of causes, one possible, but just a
> stab in the dark, would be an intentional hack as a defense to a
> spoofed-ip attack.

That's quite an interesting theory, and you may be right. However,
when given the choice between incompetence and malice, I know which
one my money is on.

> what are some names known to be hosted on worldnic?

voipbuster.com's one that they've been whining about on uk.telecom.
Right now, UDP DNS requests to ns25/ns26.worldnic.com for that domain
are giving truncated responses and TCP calls aren't even being
answered, so it's even more buggered than the last time I poked at it.

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