[80129] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Problems with NS*.worldnic.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Corlett)
Tue Apr 26 09:55:19 2005
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: abuse@cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:51:20 +0000 (UTC)
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Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> lots of folk sent email to me and not the list. most report worldnic
> responding with tcp 53 and not udp. would love to hear confirmation
> on list. can think of a number of causes, one possible, but just a
> stab in the dark, would be an intentional hack as a defense to a
> spoofed-ip attack.
That's quite an interesting theory, and you may be right. However,
when given the choice between incompetence and malice, I know which
one my money is on.
> what are some names known to be hosted on worldnic?
voipbuster.com's one that they've been whining about on uk.telecom.
Right now, UDP DNS requests to ns25/ns26.worldnic.com for that domain
are giving truncated responses and TCP calls aren't even being
answered, so it's even more buggered than the last time I poked at it.
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