On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:58:25PM +0000, Chris G wrote: > On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 10:25:11AM -0500, Perette Barella wrote: > > It looks like your provider has set up a wildcard A record, which is > > similar to DNS hijacking as a "helpful" feature to users who miskey a > > domain name. It's not isolated to you: > > > > mugenshi:etc x10$ host ghijk.isbd.net > > ghijk.isbd.net has address 195.74.61.93 > > ghijk.isbd.net mail is handled by 10 mail-in-1.lb.gradwell.net. > > > > You could check Gradwell's support pages, but I doubt there is an > > option to shut it off, since the DNS is published this way. It's a > > publication problem/"feature", not a bug in dnsmasq. > > > I do in fact have the ability to change my domain's zone files. > > ... and there is what you describe (N.B. this from a web form, not > exact zone file syntax) :- > > * 195.74.61.93 86400 A > * 10 mail-in-1.lb.gradwell.net. 86400 MX > > So can I simply delete these two entries? (OK, people mis-typing domain > names *might* be affected but that's mostly me so I don't see a big > issue there) > ... and the answer is yes. I've deleted the wild card lines from the form and now <non-existent>.isbd.net returns "not found", excellent!
Thanks for all the help here. -- Chris Green