[55678] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Odd DNS responses for www.neopets.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (just me)
Thu Feb 6 19:20:48 2003
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:19:35 -0800 (PST)
From: just me <matt@snark.net>
To: Stephen Milton <milton@isomedia.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030206004741.GG1577@isomedia.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Stephen Milton wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but isn't there something odd about a DNS query
coming back with 78 entries for the same host? It sends back an UDP
packet that gets truncated and the DNS resolver reverts to TCP to get
the full list.
It seems to cause problems with Windows clients and/or Windows DNS
servers. Seems like overkill.
neopets.com has been blatantly and furiously attempting to spam me for
several months: http://mrtg.snark.net/nullstats.cgi
If they lack the sense to stop trying to relay to a host that does not
even ACK their SYNs after several thousand tries, I suspect their
proficiency at configuring rfc-compliant DNS might be lacking as well.
Shockingly, emails to abuse@verio have been incredibly useless.
matto
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