macomnet weird dns record

Tue Apr 14 13:45:00 UTC 2015

Comic Book Guy would probably declare:

"Worst Naming Convention Ever"

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM
To: Nikolay Shopik
Cc: <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: macomnet weird dns record

Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad Best practice
says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and
hex 

Colin

> On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:09, Nikolay Shopik <shopik at inblock.ru> wrote:
> 
> How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records.
> 
> On 14/04/15 15:36, Colin Johnston wrote:
>> never saw hex in host dns records before.
>> host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.0xfffffff0.macomnet.net
>> 
>> range is blocked non the less since bad traffic from Russia network
ranges.
>> 
>> Colin
>> 