Internic hosage (fwd)

Michael Dillon michael at memra.com
Sat Mar 21 02:02:31 UTC 1998


On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Alex Bligh wrote:

> > > However, the point has been completely missed here, Eric.  The point Dal
> > > was making is that Perhaps.youwant.to FALSIFIED, LIED, FORGED, STOLE,
> > > MISAPPROPRIATED, and otherwise BS'd about their WhoIs entry: 
> 
> I think the world is missing something (*). ".to" is the TLD registered to
> Tonga. They are doing a nice line in registering domain names thankyou.
> Internic/NSI's whois server is not authorative for them. 

Let's delve into the technical a bit, shall we? Host records are in place
so that authorization info can be associated with the hosts that are
registered as nameservers for a domain. One would expect that a host
registered with the Internic would at some point in time be listed as a
nameserver on an Internic domain name registration.

When a host is listed as a nameserver on an Internic domain name
registration, e.g. example.com, it is listed in the Internic zone, i.e. 
.com, as a glue record. If your nameserver happens to resolve example.com
it will also learn the addresses from the glue records, thus if at some
later point in time one of your customers attempts to access
perhaps.youwant.to your nameserver will deliver the address learned from
the glue record and will not query the youwant.to domain nameserver.

I don't know whether these people actually did hijack the address of
perhaps.youwant.to or whether they were just preparing to do so. And I
don't know whether more recent versions of BIND can ignore glue records
which would mean that they only partially hijacked the host name.

Of course the Internic web pages claim that a host record can only be
changed by the technical contact of the domain in question. Since they
have no record in their database of a technical contact for youwant.to the
question is, why did they allow this info to be registered in the first
place?

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Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael at memra.com





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