[76537] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: [Fwd: zone transfers, a spammer's dream?]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Tue Dec 14 09:52:19 2004

Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:50:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Cc: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>, nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20041214095222.GB12212@nic.fr>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> >      171 uk.zone
>
> Everything is in subdomains like co.uk, so there is no point in
> blocking zone transfers for the TLD.

For the same reason, it is perfectly normal to

$ dig @<LETTER>.root-servers.net. . axfr

-- 
-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post