macomnet weird dns record

Pavel Odintsov pavel.odintsov at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 14:09:48 UTC 2015


Hello, Colin!

We use hexademical numbers in PTR for VPS/Servers because PTR's like
"host-87.118.199.240.domain.ru" so often banned by weird antispam
systems  by mask \d+\.\d+\.\d+\d+ as home ISP subnets which produce
bunch of spam.



On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Colin Johnston <colinj at gt86car.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi Nikolay, I have obvious hit a cultural nerve here, if so I am sorry.
> At least there is communication on some level, Chinese colleagues would not even bother to respond to aid debug.
>
> Be that as it may, why not use either normal decimal numbers or normal characters to show what a normal person would understand instead of having to convert the shown output ?
>
> Colin
>
>
>> On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:54, Nikolay Shopik <shopik at inblock.ru> wrote:
>>
>> Are Roman numerals allowed in DNS? Because I know some people also do them.
>>
>> dig -x 217.199.208.190
>>
>>
>> On 14/04/15 16:45, Chuck Church wrote:
>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>
>



-- 
Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov



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