[80280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Thu Apr 28 02:55:39 2005
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:38:00 +0930
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Cc: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>,
Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>,
North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504280159200.27659-100000@amethyst.justthe.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:16:36AM -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> Any IP that a provider allows servers on should have
> distinctive, non-dynamic-looking DNS (and preferably be in a separate
> netblock from the dynamically-assigned IPs).
What the hell is a "non-dynamic-looking DNS"? Sure, if I see something
like "static-192-168-1-1.isp.net" I can be reasonably sure that it's
non-dynamic-looking, but what does the same thing look like in
Portugese? German? Spanish? French? (Korean? Chinese?)
Just wait'll we start getting unicode DNS names in non-English alphabets.
Perhaps then you can tell what to look for in a string of Kanji symbols
which might be suggestive of the concept of "static".
- mark
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