macomnet weird dns record

Colin Johnston colinj at gt86car.org.uk
Tue Apr 14 13:26:48 UTC 2015


Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad 
Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and hex 

Colin

> On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:09, Nikolay Shopik <shopik at inblock.ru> wrote:
> 
> How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records.
> 
> On 14/04/15 15:36, Colin Johnston wrote:
>> never saw hex in host dns records before.
>> host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.0xfffffff0.macomnet.net
>> 
>> range is blocked non the less since bad traffic from Russia network ranges.
>> 
>> Colin
>> 




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