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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: lame delegations
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote: > In fact, this is a nice DoS in and of itself. Don't like someone? > Set up name servers all throughout their address-space, so that > they can't use them themselves without jumping through hoops, > e.g., > ... > Has anyone seen this DoS in the wild? Strikes me as clinically stupid > that nobody has seen this and exploited it in the past... > This happened to us once with the Argentinian registry. Someone, we know not who, had registered the host ns0.magic-moments.com with them, which we happen to use as the primary NS for domains hosted with us. When we went to register a .ar domain for the first time, our app was rejected because the nameserver record didn't belong to us! Was somewhat of a pain in the arse for our lad to have to sort out. -- Patrick Evans - Sysadmin, bran addict and couch potato pre at pre dot org www.pre.org/pre
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