NEVERMIND! (was: Seeking Google reverse DNS delegation contact)

Christopher Morrow morrowc.lists at gmail.com
Sun Nov 13 23:57:19 UTC 2016


So... actually someone did tell arin to aim these at ns1/2google.com...
I'll go ask arin to 'fix the glitch'.

thanks!
-chris
(sometimes people do this, I have no idea why... perhaps they just like
broken ptrs?)

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com
> wrote:

>
>
> My profuse apologies to everyone.  It seems that Google is not in fact
> involved in any way with providing reverse DNS for the 204.8.136.0/21
> IP address block.  I was deceived into believing it was by some
> unusual trickey on the part of the spammer-controlled name servers
> ns1.saversagreeable.com and ns2.saversagreeable.com.  You can see
> the clever deception toward the very end of the dig +trace listing
> I posted:
>
>     http://pastebin.com/raw/VNwmgMHh
>
> It seems those clever rascal spammers tried to implicate Google's
> name servers, but it is only their's which are giving out the
> reverse DNS which suoorts their snowshoe spamming efforts in the
> 204.8.136.0/21 block.
>
> Sorry for my mistake everyone.  I wasn't expecting quite this level
> or kind of reverse DNS delegation trickery.
>
>
> Regards,
> rfg
>



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