[39652] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: X-10 and like behaviour.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Wilbur)
Thu Jul 19 17:32:09 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:31:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Wilbur <matt@photon.com>
To: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, George Michaelson wrote:
> Its probably not a big deal, and if selling bits on the wire makes money
> "the more the merrier" might be a catch-cry but I wondered if there was
> a NANOG dimension to these bloody irritating X-10 popups that curse me
> more and more.
>
> Is there some well understood non-edge solution to this kind of crap
> or do we all wind up rolling our own?
>
This isn't quite the universal solution you're looking for, but my
method is to load an x10.com zone on our nameservers, with a wildcard
A record pointing to loopback. Stops all x10 ads dead. IANAI however,
so it's not nearly the headache it would be were a major ISP/NSP to choose
this method :)
-Matt
