[23467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS entry abuse question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward S. Marshall)
Fri Mar 19 22:16:14 1999
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 21:16:02 -0600 (CST)
From: "Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal@logic.net>
To: Peter Day <ospwd@emory.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <v04011723b31825069c0e@[170.140.10.194]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Peter Day wrote:
> Although we can contact bee.net and the student to address this violation
> of our policy, my question is whether there is anything we can do in
> general to prevent people from pointing DNS names at computers at Emory
> without our permission.
You're absolutely correct.
Can you clearly explain why you care, other that defamation issues (which
I address below)? Is this somehow impacting your ability to operate in
some fashion?
> Presumably there is great opportunity for mischief here, in that
> someone could register a domain name such as emorysucks.org and point
> it at our web site.
That's a defamation issue. It's a social problem, and needs a social
solution. In this case, you contact the people doing it, and if they're
not helpful, you call your lawyer.
Technology can't solve everything.
--
Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@logic.net> [ What goes up, must come down. ]
http://www.logic.net/~emarshal/ [ Ask any system administrator. ]
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