[96804] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interesting new dns failures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri May 25 16:24:36 2007
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 May 2007 12:08:44 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:23:42 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 25 May 2007 12:08:44 PDT, Scott Weeks said:
> --------------johnl@iecc.com wrote:--------------------
> > the bits of governments that deal with online crime, spam, etc.,
> > I can report that pretty much all of the countries that matter
> > realize there's a problem, and a lot of them have passed or will
> > pass laws whether we like it or not. So it behooves us to engage
> > them and help them pass better rather than worse laws.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Which countries are "pretty much all of the countries that matter"? Do you
> have a list or is this just 'something you're sure of'?
A lot of the more nefarious uses of the DNS are there precisely because the
actual country *doesn't* matter, and as a result the TLD is run by somebody
who is asleep at the wheel or worse. For instance, there appears to be a
'*.cm' wildcard in place, and several "flag of convenience" TLDs with a high
ratio of users that aren't actually associated with the country...
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