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Re: DNS entry abuse question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Mar 19 11:14:07 1999

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:12:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Tim Finkenstadt <timothy@erinet.com>
Cc: ospwd@emory.edu (Peter Day), nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> There isn't any way to prevent others from assigning A records in their 
> domains to point to hosts and addresses in Emory.  All you can do is 
> contact the DNS administrators and owners of the domains to remove the
> offending records.

one can set up emory as a primary with the zone content of

molvis.org.   SOA    (...)
	      NS     my.server.
	      MX 42  some.schmuck.lame.delegated.molvis.org.

use a low ttl so it de-caches quickly when they fix the lame delegation.

randy


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