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Re: DNS requests for 1918 space

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Mar 16 12:51:23 2004

To: "Geo." <georger@getinfo.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:22:55 EST."
             <EKECJMGPAACGOMIGLJJDOEICEBAA.georger@getinfo.net> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:50:44 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:22:55 EST, "Geo." <georger@getinfo.net>  said:

> I'm aware of the issues involved with an ISP passing the requests on to the
> root servers but was looking specifically for security type issues relating
> to a private network passing the requests out to their ISP's dns servers.

Hint:  Every such DNS request that escapes will either time out or get an
error.  The admin is unwilling or unable to fix the resulting breakage.
The fact that it isn't being fixed should tell you a lot about the site....

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