[179463] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: macomnet weird dns record
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nikolay Shopik)
Tue Apr 14 09:57:32 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:54:23 +0300
From: Nikolay Shopik <shopik@inblock.ru>
To: Chuck Church <chuckchurch@gmail.com>,
'Colin Johnston' <colinj@gt86car.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <002601d076b9$35c40310$a14c0930$@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Are Roman numerals allowed in DNS? Because I know some people also do them.
dig -x 217.199.208.190
On 14/04/15 16:45, Chuck Church wrote:
> Comic Book Guy would probably declare:
>
> "Worst Naming Convention Ever"
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM
> To: Nikolay Shopik
> Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
> Subject: Re: macomnet weird dns record
>
> 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@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
>>>
>
