[22269] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: InterNIC "whois server " broke?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Haas)
Sat Dec 19 00:03:55 1998
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 00:01:47 -0500
From: Jeffrey Haas <elezar@pfrc.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981218181918.A22701@phoenix.lyle.org>; from Michael P. Lyle on Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 06:19:18PM -0800
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 06:19:18PM -0800, Michael P. Lyle wrote:
> I don't see why authentication is such a necessity-- why is it a secret
> what domains a given nameserver serves? It would be easy enough to pull
> the information down by exhaustive search.
The whole issue isn't so much authentication but logging.
This way, the abusers can be isolated from the database.
How many spams from the Internic domain scrapers have YOU
gotten the last couple of weeks?
> Michael P. Lyle
--
Jeffrey Haas "Denial of Spamming is not a crime."
elezar@pfrc.org -- Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
