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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Interesting new dns failures
On Fri, 25 May 2007 [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, 25 May 2007 12:08:44 PDT, Scott Weeks said: > > [email protected] wrote:-------------------- > > > the bits of governments that deal with online crime, spam, etc., > > > I can report that pretty much all of the countries that matter > > > realize there's a problem, and a lot of them have passed or will > > > pass laws whether we like it or not. So it behooves us to engage > > > them and help them pass better rather than worse laws. > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > Which countries are "pretty much all of the countries that matter"? Do you > > have a list or is this just 'something you're sure of'? > > A lot of the more nefarious uses of the DNS are there precisely because the > actual country *doesn't* matter, and as a result the TLD is run by somebody > who is asleep at the wheel or worse. For instance, there appears to be a > '*.cm' wildcard in place, and several "flag of convenience" TLDs with a high cameroon outsourced their dns infrastructure management to someone, that contract includes a "we can answer X for all queries that would return NXDOMAIN'" ... that's not 'asleep at the wheel' so much as 'not a good idea' (except for click revenue I suppose). This is different from .cx? or .tv how? > ratio of users that aren't actually associated with the country...
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