What DNS Is Not

David Ulevitch davidu at everydns.net
Tue Nov 10 15:31:55 UTC 2009


On 11/10/09 8:05 AM, John Peach wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:09 -0500
> David Ulevitch<davidu at everydns.net>  wrote:
>
>> On 11/9/09 6:06 PM, Alex Balashov wrote:
>>
>>> Anything else is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. I don't understand how or
>>> why this could possibly be controversial.
>>
>> Because some people want the ability and choice to block DNS
>> responses they don't like; just as they have the ability and choice
>> to reject email they don't want to accept.
>>
>> When the conficker worms phones home to one of the 50,000 potential
>> domains names it computes each day, there are a lot of IT folks out
>> there that wish their local resolver would simply reject those DNS
>> requests so that infected machines in their network fail to phone
>> home.
>>
>> To use your language, I don't understand how or why this could
>> possibly be controversial.  --  Apparently it is.
>
> In which case, make your own nameserver authoritative for those
> domains; do not foist your own wishes on other people.

Umm... That's precisely what I've done.  Please read the thread.

-David




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