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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Annoying dynamic DNS updates (was Re: someone from attbi please contact me ...)
When will entities that implement "solutions" that cause damage on a global scale be held accountable? The Dynamic DNS problem with Windows boxes makes me think someone thought it would be a good idea, but didn't really think it through. The Verisign wildcard decision seems to be along the same lines. I doubt anyone thought there would be a class action lawsuit when the made the change. It reminds me of the Netgear and U of Wisconsin time server SNAFU. http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ jas > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: >> [email protected] and [email protected] are ignoring me as usual, so i'm spamming [email protected] in >> hopes of locating attbi clue. i need somebody who can educate one of >> your customers who is dns-updating me. > > ATT Broadband was sold to Comcast a while ago. There is no more attbi > clue. > > If you find someone, add these to the list of misconfigured Windows > users trying to "update" other people's DNS servers. > > acl "bogon" { > // Annoying dynamic DNS updates from this address > 68.39.224.6; > 68.38.156.178; > 68.38.152.156; > 68.38.158.209; > }; > >> >> PS. why is this so hard? >> > > Are you talking about the kitchen sink protocol called DNS, or trying to > contact another ISP, or the sociological difficulties of educating the > general public how to configure very complicated "personal" computers > and software without making a mistake? > > Why is dynamic DNS update enabled by default on some operating systems?
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