WARNING: AOL is hosed (again)
CyberTech/CTCS%CTCS at ctcs.net
CyberTech/CTCS%CTCS at ctcs.net
Fri Oct 16 21:47:33 UTC 1998
Just FYI.. I have personally NAK'd 4 updates sent in by clients of mine
which effected domains on my servers. The updates were technically
correct (for auto-processing), but had the wrong information. internic
conveniently ignored the NAK's, all of them.
Phillip Vandry <vandry at Mlink.NET>@merit.edu on 10/16/98 09:37:59 AM
Sent by: owner-nanog at merit.edu
To: jamie at ais.net
cc: markb at infi.net, nanog at merit.edu (bcc: CyberTech/CTCS)
Subject: Re: WARNING: AOL is hosed (again)
> > If yes to my second question, then the tracking numbers either need to
be
> > made much longer and randomized or a one time pass phrase (session
key)
> > needs to be added to the acknowlegement form.
>
> You can actually set a domain name so that it cannot be changed, by
> any template, by any modification, correct guardian or NOT.
Sounds like a nonreversible setting to me. What if you need to change it?
Anyway, I think that by default, the update goes through automatically,
a positive acknoledgement is ignored (default behaviour) and a negative
acknowledgement is honored. (Which means AOL should have been able to
stop it).
Then there is the setting where the update will not go through by default,
and a positive acknowledgement is required.
As to whether it all works as advertized (and PGP auth too?), who knows?
-Phil
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