[66215] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: example.com/net/org DNS records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Marquis)
Sun Jan 4 16:50:30 2004
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 13:49:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu, spamtools@lists.abuse.net
In-Reply-To: <200401042005.i04K53et023890@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > * Why did they assign NSs and a valid IP to these invalid domains?
>
> So they can put up an explanatory website that says "Don't do that,
> you idiot".
This is the best explanation I've read so far. Problem is, it's
not a compelling rational. Is this really the only reason for
assigning NS and A records, violating the RFC, and breaking thousands
of spam filters in the process?
--
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/
