[96808] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interesting new dns failures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Fri May 25 20:42:14 2007
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 00:40:40 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <19138.1180129682@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: surfer@mauigateway.com, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 25 May 2007 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:31:59 -0000, "Chris L. Morrow" said:
>
> > cameroon outsourced their dns infrastructure management to someone, that
> > contract includes a "we can answer X for all queries that would return
> > NXDOMAIN'" ... that's not 'asleep at the wheel'
>
> As I said, "asleep at the wheel or worse"...
ha :) as always, perfectly cynical :) I think my point was that someone in
cameroon (or acting on their official behalf, perhaps pocketting some cash
along the way, who knows?) made a decision that this is 'ok' with them.
-Chris
