[62134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What *are* they smoking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marius Strom)
Tue Sep 16 11:38:08 2003
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:37:35 -0500
From: Marius Strom <marius@marius.org>
To: Sabri Berisha <sabri@cluecentral.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Mail-Followup-To: Sabri Berisha <sabri@cluecentral.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030916171103.B16292@cluecentral.net>
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Just noticed this: verisign is redirecting queries for dorkslayers.com's
old RBL, even though dorkslayers.com is a registered and active domain.
It just has no name servers.
So it seems they're doing this to billing-active domains as well.
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Sabri Berisha wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:56:57AM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote:
> >
> > A wildcard A record in the net TLD.
> >
> > $ host does.really-not-exist.net
> > does.really-not-exist.net has address 64.94.110.11
> >
> > $ host 64.94.110.11
> > 11.110.94.64.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer sitefinder-idn.verisign.com
>
> Simply inject a route for 64.94.110.11/32 in your favorite IGP, route it
> to a box and alias it on eth0. Put up a 404 not found and let Verisign
> rot in hell until such time as they regain their consiousness.
>
> --
> Sabri Berisha "I route, therefore you are"
>
> "Wij doen niet aan default gateways" - anonymous engineer bij een DSL klant.
>
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