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Re: macomnet weird dns record
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Tue Apr 14 20:29:44 2015
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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:29:32 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 4/14/2015 08:26, Colin Johnston wrote:
> 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
Which is precisely why spammers have been doing it for years.
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