North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: what the heck do i do now?
> One thing you might consider is putting together a script to harvest email > addresses from whois records that correspond to the PTR for the querying > IPs. Add to that list abuse, postmaster, webmaster, hostmaster, etc @ the > poorly run domain. Then fire off a message explaining the situation and > that you'll be adding a wildcard record on such and such date (preferably > not 4/1). Script all of this and run it every couple of days until the > date you gave and then follow through with the wildcard entry. This > undoubtedly won't stop all of the whining but you can at least say you > tried. volunteers are welcome to apply for that job. > Perhaps you can get CNet or InfoWorld to pick it and write a story about the > service and the impending change. that, conversely, would be fun. > When it comes right down to it, you've got to do what you've got to do to > recover your domain. You provided a service that many of us relied upon. > The responsibility rests on our shoulders to keep up with the changing > times. 7-8 years is more than enough time for even the laziest of mail > admins to update their config. Think about how much bandwidth has been > wasted over the years with these errant queries... about 1 billionth as much as has been wasted by RFC1918-sourced DNS queries sent to the root name servers OR RFC1918-domained DNS updates sent to AS112. therefore i treat it as a personal annoyance but NOT a waste in its own right.
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