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Re: question about per. hack

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Davis)
Tue Jul 22 13:33:07 1997

To: Tim Gibson <tim@taggnet.skyscape.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, Paul A Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
In-reply-to: Tim Gibson's message <Pine.BSD/.3.91.970722130442.11651B-100000@taggnet.skyscape.net> of Tue, 22 Jul 1997 13:14:32 EDT.
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 19:24:36 +0200
From: Ray Davis <ray@carpe.net>

> > Why not just block all his garbage NSes and the fantasy NSes he's
> > pointing to?  A quick scan of `dig @nyc.alternic.net . axfr' reveals
> > the entries I've enclosed at the bottom.  The unique IPs in this list
> > are below and we've blocked them all at our border so none of out NSes
> > can get polluted by them.  Why not do the same?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Ray
> > 
> > ===== Unique set of IPs from the alternic fantasy tld list =====
> <snip>
> >       205.206.189.3
> <snip>
> > 	207.107.232.3
> <snip>
>
> These addresses is under my care. Eugene does NOT have access to them. They 
> are NOT part of the Alternic scheme anymore. They were used during the 
> "experimental" phase of Alternic. Before you haphazardly start blocking 
> addresses you should do your research completely. I've got no problems 
> telling my customers ..."Sorry sir, you can't reach carpe.net because 
> they have poor filtering practices." You'll probably find many others in 
> your hit list that are nolonger connected to the Alternic.

Too bad.  I don't care.  We don't need fantasy TLDs so we don't need
to talk to your nameservers.  If you aren't part of the Alternic
anymore then get your nameservers out of their phoney root.

Ray

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