[61258] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re[2]: relays.osirusoft.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Tue Aug 26 21:17:54 2003
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:14:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0308262054520.11298-100000@r2d2.easydns.com>
Reply-To: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:59:22 -0400 (EDT) Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com> wrote:
> Returning 127.0.0.2 on everything would indeed be an ugly way to bow
> out, but its been done before. Another RBL went out the same way
> previously, can't remember which one (was it orbz?)
it was more complicated than that. orbs went away without a clean shutdown
plan, and one of the secondary DNS operators started answering with
127.0.0.2 to try and get people to stop querying his server.
it worked, although with non-trivial pain attached.
richard
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