[20568] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WARNING: AOL is hosed (again)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Vandry)
Fri Oct 16 17:02:30 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:37:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET>
To: jamie@ais.net
cc: markb@infi.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:11:28 EDT."
<199810162011.PAA28644@dilbert.ais.net>
> > If yes to my second question, then the tracking numbers either need to be
> > made much longer and randomized or a one time pass phrase (session key)
> > needs to be added to the acknowlegement form.
>
> You can actually set a domain name so that it cannot be changed, by
> any template, by any modification, correct guardian or NOT.
Sounds like a nonreversible setting to me. What if you need to change it?
Anyway, I think that by default, the update goes through automatically,
a positive acknoledgement is ignored (default behaviour) and a negative
acknowledgement is honored. (Which means AOL should have been able to
stop it).
Then there is the setting where the update will not go through by default,
and a positive acknowledgement is required.
As to whether it all works as advertized (and PGP auth too?), who knows?
-Phil
