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Interesting that this came up, was just reading an article that pointed me in this direction. http://www.toad.com/~dnssec/ Henry R. Linneweh Joe Shaw wrote: > I honestly don't think there's much you can do regarding someone else > pointing an A record at one of your machines if you don't run DNS for the > domain that the A record is coming from. Now, you could just make it part > of your acceptable use policy or student handbook that it's not acceptable > to be doing things like that with possible penalities (expulsion, things > like that). But really, is the offense such that it warrants drastic > action? > > -- > Joseph W. Shaw - [email protected] > Freelance Computer Security Consultant and Perl Programmer > Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am." > > On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Peter Day wrote: > > > > > We recently discovered that bee.net DNS is pointing the name molvis.org at > > our main web server, www.emory.edu, without our permission. The billing > > contact for molvis.org is a student at Emory. > > > > Although we can contact bee.net and the student to address this violation > > of our policy, my question is whether there is anything we can do in > > general to prevent people from pointing DNS names at computers at Emory > > without our permission. Presumably there is great opportunity for mischief > > here, in that someone could register a domain name such as emorysucks.org > > and point it at our web site. > > > > If this is the wrong place to ask this question, please accept my apology > > and suggest an alternate place. > > > > Thanks for any advice you can give. > > > > Peter Day > > Emory.edu administrative contact > > Information Technology Division > > N. Decatur Bldg Suite 300 | E-mail: [email protected] > > Emory University | PHONE: +1 404 727-7678 > > Atlanta, GA 30322 | FAX: +1 404 727-0817 > >
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