Quick list of links to possible solutions:

http://www.imperialviolet.org/dnsfix.html

- Martin -

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 13:55, Patrick Okui wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 13:27, Paul Bagyenda wrote:
> > What do the ISP guys feel about this:
>
> we've routed the IP to NULL0 aka /dev/null on our distribution routers.
> if all ISPs do something similar, we won't have that much of a problem.
>
> my 2 cents.
> Patrick.
>
> > http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/16/0034210.shtml?tid=126&tid=95&tid=98
> >&tid=99
> >
> >
> > <italic><fontfamily><param>Times</param><bigger><bigger>(VeriSign is a
> > company which purchased Network Solutions, another company which was
> > given the task by the US government of running the .COM and .NET
> > top-level domains (TLDs).  VeriSign has been exploiting the Internet's
> > DNS infrastructure ever since.)
> >
> >
> > This will have the immediate effect of making network trouble-shooting
> > much more difficult.  Before, a mis-typed domain name in an email
> > address, web browser, or other network configuration item would result
> > in an obvious error message.  You might not have known what to do
> > about it, but at least you knew something was wrong.  Now, though, you
> > will have to guess.  Every time.
> >
> >
> > Some have pointed out that this will make an important anti-spam check
> > impossible.  A common anti-spam measure is to check and make sure the
> > domain name of the sender really exists.  (While this is easy to
> > force, every little bit helps.)  Since all .COM and .NET domain names
> > now exist, that anti-spam check is useless.
> > </bigger></bigger></fontfamily></italic>


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