Annoying dynamic DNS updates (was Re: someone from attbi please contact me ...)

Sun Sep 28 00:05:47 UTC 2003

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Donelan" <sean at donelan.com>
To: <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 7:30 PM
Subject: Annoying dynamic DNS updates (was Re: someone from attbi please
contact me ...)

>
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > noc@ and abuse@ are ignoring me as usual, so i'm spamming nanog@ in
> > hopes of locating attbi clue.  i need somebody who can educate one of
> > your customers who is dns-updating me.
>
> ATT Broadband was sold to Comcast a while ago.  There is no more attbi
> clue.
>
> If you find someone, add these to the list of misconfigured Windows
> users trying to "update" other people's DNS servers.
>
> acl "bogon" {
>                 // Annoying dynamic DNS updates from this address
>         68.39.224.6;
>         68.38.156.178;
>         68.38.152.156;
>         68.38.158.209;
> };
>
> >
> > PS. why is this so hard?
> >
>
> Are you talking about the kitchen sink protocol called DNS, or trying
> to contact another ISP, or the sociological difficulties of educating
> the general public how to configure very complicated "personal" computers
> and software without making a mistake?
>
> Why is dynamic DNS update enabled by default on some operating systems?
>
>