[30592] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: lame delegations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Evans)
Fri Aug 18 14:29:07 2000
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:27:06 +0100 (BST)
From: Patrick Evans <pre@pre.org>
To: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> In fact, this is a nice DoS in and of itself. Don't like someone?
> Set up name servers all throughout their address-space, so that
> they can't use them themselves without jumping through hoops,
> e.g.,
>
...
> Has anyone seen this DoS in the wild? Strikes me as clinically stupid
> that nobody has seen this and exploited it in the past...
>
This happened to us once with the Argentinian registry. Someone, we
know not who, had registered the host ns0.magic-moments.com with them,
which we happen to use as the primary NS for domains hosted with us.
When we went to register a .ar domain for the first time, our app was
rejected because the nameserver record didn't belong to us!
Was somewhat of a pain in the arse for our lad to have to sort out.
--
Patrick Evans - Sysadmin, bran addict and couch potato
pre at pre dot org www.pre.org/pre
