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Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Oct 9 12:41:27 2003

Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 21:59:35 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>
Cc: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031009120243.02e24808@mail1.tellurian.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Vinny Abello writes on 10/9/2003 9:41 PM:

> They're using extremely low TTL's on most of their records. Typically 2 
> minutes to accomplish this. The thing is I would imagine at least ONE of 
> those NS servers cannot change within a 2 hour window whereas the others 

They are using a whole lot of stuff that's basically dynamic DNS.

> low TTL on an NS record. If NeuLevel is any good they would likely have 
> some sort of information to identify the owner of the domain, even if 

They seem to have a spammer infestation though.

	srs

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