What are they smoking?

Mon Sep 15 23:24:24 UTC 2003

Once upon a time, Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net> said:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:56:57AM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote:
> > $ host does.really-not-exist.net
> > does.really-not-exist.net has address 64.94.110.11
> 
> I would say time to null route this horribly inappropriate scam, but it 
> looks like a few cable modem providers have already done so, and I am no 
> longer seeing it in the .com zone (but I still see it under .net).

Someone has already brought up the idea on the BIND list of modifying
BIND to recognize this response and converting it back to NXDOMAIN.
Blackholing the IP means that your customers will get an error that the
site is unreachable, not that it does not exist.

BTW: I got a "content filter" message bounce in response to my other
post on this topic - anyone else get that?  I didn't see anything in my
message that looked filter-worthy to me.
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

What *are* they smoking?

What are they smoking?