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Of course, these measures can only help but so much if your hostmaster blindly acks every peice of NIC mail that comes his way... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blake Willis 703-448-4470x483 Network Engineer, New Customers [email protected] CAIS Internet, a CGX Communications Company --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Phillip Vandry wrote: > > > If yes to my second question, then the tracking numbers either need to be > > > made much longer and randomized or a one time pass phrase (session key) > > > needs to be added to the acknowlegement form. > > > > You can actually set a domain name so that it cannot be changed, by > > any template, by any modification, correct guardian or NOT. > > Sounds like a nonreversible setting to me. What if you need to change it? > > Anyway, I think that by default, the update goes through automatically, > a positive acknoledgement is ignored (default behaviour) and a negative > acknowledgement is honored. (Which means AOL should have been able to > stop it). > > Then there is the setting where the update will not go through by default, > and a positive acknowledgement is required. > > As to whether it all works as advertized (and PGP auth too?), who knows? > > -Phil >
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