Subject: Re: DNS Blacklist feature
To: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@NetBSD.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/06/2007 00:57:10
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

>> What exactly is the problem?
>> Queries for non-existant names returns an A record that points
>> to one of their web servers saying "welcome"?
>> Do they do it when recursion is both enabled and disabled?
>
> I didn't want to start the whole NANOG discussion here about why this
> is a bad thing, see NANOG archives for that, but here is the short
> answer.  What does your ssh/ftp/email/irc/etc client do with that
> response?  The Internet != web pages.

 	Mmmm.. JANET Colour Book Software. (Apologies and a pint of beer
 	to anyone who gets that reference & relevance - plain apologies
 	to anyone else :)

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