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RE: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Fri Dec 8 15:23:37 2006

Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 11:57:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: "Geo." <geoincidents@nls.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0612080959460.1965-100000@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Gadi Evron wrote:

> Luke:
> It is possible the DNS queries made are for non existent domains, fake
> replies, perhaps even making them something in 1918 space, and they MAY
> stop being not nice netizens.

Configuring your nameservers to randomly give bad answers isn't 
considered being a "nice netizen" either, the last time I checked.

--matt@snark.net------------------------------------------<darwin><
   Moral indignation is a technique to endow the idiot with dignity.
                                                 - Marshall McLuhan

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