[66210] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: example.com/net/org DNS records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bill)
Sun Jan 4 15:48:24 2004
From: bill <bmanning@karoshi.com>
To: marquis@roble.com (Roger Marquis)
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 12:48:14 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu, spamtools@lists.abuse.net
In-Reply-To: <20040104163617.44D66DB03A@mx7.roble.com> from "Roger Marquis" at Jan 04, 2004 08:36:17 AM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Does anyone know why IANA has assigned NS and A records to the
> example.{com,org,net,...} domains? They even put up a website
> at the IP explaining RFC 2606.
because they are owned by the IANA.
> * Why did they assign NSs and a valid IP to these invalid domains?
they are not invalid.
> * Are they breaking the RFC by doing this?
Nope.
> * Are they breaking anti-UCE filters by doing this? (yes)
Perhaps.
> * Are they harvesting URLs and referrers?
Ask the current IANA.
> * Will they next advertise routes for RFC 1918 addresses?
Perhaps. They do authorize authoritative DNS service for these
blocks in the public Internet.
> --
> Roger Marquis
> Roble Systems Consulting
> http://www.roble.com/
--bill (one-time IANA jock, who set up the DNS for RFC 1918 space and
the example domains)
