[76430] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: no whois info ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Corlett)
Fri Dec 10 05:18:03 2004
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: abuse@cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett)
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:15:54 +0000 (UTC)
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william(at)elan.net <william@elan.net> wrote:
[...]
> Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within
> about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz)
> while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. That means if
> spammer registers new domain he'll be able to use it immediatly and
> it'll not yet show up in whois (and so not be immediatly
> identifiable to spam reporting tools) - and spammers are in fact
> using this "feature" more and more!
This tempts me to hack something into Exim that does a whois on
previously-unseen sender domains, and give a deferral if the whois
denies existence of the domain. Is this likely to have any meaningful
effect?
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