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Re: Always renew your domain names

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luca Filipozzi)
Fri Dec 5 12:20:32 2003

Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 09:20:04 -0800
From: Luca Filipozzi <lucaf+nanog@ece.ubc.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1070644044.24671.3.camel@mts-int-235-210.mts.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:07:24AM -0600, Mike Hyde wrote:
> Looks like someone forgot to renew there domain name and another party
> decided to do it for them, with some slight changes:
> 
> host 206.108.102.93
> 93.102.108.206.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer
> bells-network-has-lots-of-security-holes-to-exploit.bell-nexxia.net

This isn't a lapsed domain registration issue; we're not talking about A
records.  It doesn't strike you as odd (read 'a security issue') that the
PTR records have been changed?

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Luca Filipozzi, ECE Dept. IT Manager, University of British Columbia
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