[94745] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: what the heck do i do now?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lyall)
Sun Feb 4 17:26:56 2007
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:25:50 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Simon Lyall <simon@darkmere.gen.nz>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <45C2DB48.5040905@west.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> Set up a nameserver there. Configure it to return 127.0.0.2 (or
> whatever the old MAPS reply for "spam" was) to all queries. Let it run
> for a week. See if anything changes in terms of it getting hammered.
Well I've seen some RBLs do this with about 2 days notice. Perhaps a
special value could be defined ( 127.255.255.255 ? ) to tell users that
the DNSBL is no longer in operation and shouldn't be used, standard
software can then raise an error or whatever.
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