[18774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Headaches.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Brooks)
Mon Aug 17 16:43:53 1998
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 12:53:02 -0500
From: Ryan Brooks <ryan@inc.net>
To: "Craig A. Huegen" <chuegen@quadrunner.com>
CC: max@inc.net, nanog@merit.edu
After looking at the DIG output posted I would have to agree with how this _should_
have manifested itself (mispelled TLDs only, because of the SOA) - But packet dumps
showed the lookups contained lots of valid domains, tons of stuff in .mg, .il,
.uk, .gov and to a latter extent .com and .net (but only largish sites like excite,
yahoo, etc).
Ryan Brooks
ryan@inc.net
CTO, Internet Connect, Inc.
Craig A. Huegen wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 04:13:49AM -0500, Ryan K. Brooks wrote:
>
> ==>How did this happen anyway? InterNIC? Postel? Doesn't this error imply that
> ==>a percentage of the Internet was unresolvable by the entire planet?
>
> No. It means that any mis-spelled top-level domain went to you.
>
> So you got all the traffic for .ent, .ocm, .cmo, .nte, etc domains =)
>
> (.net and .com permutations for those of you who didn't see it)
>
> /cah
>
