[129576] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Convenience or slippery slope... or something else?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (N. Yaakov Ziskind)
Sat Sep 11 23:25:16 2010
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 23:24:51 -0400
From: "N. Yaakov Ziskind" <awacs@ziskind.us>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1009101339520.5148@soloth.lewis.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: awacs@ziskind.us
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jon Lewis wrote (on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 01:44:02PM -0400):
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Reese wrote:
>
> >A friend brought this to my attention:
> >
> >http://ipq.co/
> >
> >He saw it at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678324
> >
> >I'm not sure whether to shriek in joy or in pain. Will data from
> >this service - if it is a worthy service - propagate properly?
> >Play nicely with or break other people's toys? Is it a gimmick?
>
> How's it going to break anything? I just created one...
>
> tentententen.ipq.co. 86400 IN A 10.10.10.10
>
> so...now I can use tentententen.ipq.co as a name that resolves to
> 10.10.10.10...assuming I trust ipq.co to keep that A record and not delete
> or change it at some point. Other than the fact that you can't change
> it[1], how is this any different (other than being less useful) or scarier
> than DynDNS?
>
>
> 1. EMAIL ADDRESS
> optional, but will allow you to update the record later (once we implement
> it)
And now FF blocks it as a "reported attack page."
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