godaddy spam / abuse suspensions?

Mon Nov 17 03:12:30 UTC 2008

In message <1226880169.6912.321.camel at ragnarok>, Jeremy Jackson writes:
> or how about using an NS that returns ICMP errors instead of NXDOMAIN,
> perhaps using anycast for reducing network load?

	ICMP is not particularly useful unless the nameserver uses
	connected sockets.  Now that randomised ports are used this
	well may be true but there are still lots of nameservers that
	don't see the ICMP message even it makes it past the firewalls.

> Would that stop the timeout errors?  server is still lame, you just know
> faster?
> 
> On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 05:15 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:20 AM, James Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > One of the secondary/tertiary recursive resolvers may hand the client
> > > a cached response that had been obtained before the registrar took any
> > > action.
> > 
> > Yes, and that'd  make a good case for the good old ops practice of
> > dialing down the TTL for a while before any NS change is made.
> > 
> > --srs
> > 
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> Jeremy Jackson
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> 
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