Re: Convenience or slippery slope... or something else?
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Reese re...@inkworkswell.com wrote: A friend brought this to my attention: http://ipq.co/ as an aside: https://www.nic.co/ note the cert in used for the NIC's website... surely the .CO ccTLD could use a real cert? -chris
Re: Convenience or slippery slope... or something else?
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Reese re...@inkworkswell.com wrote: A friend brought this to my attention: http://ipq.co/ as an aside: https://www.nic.co/ note the cert in used for the NIC's website... surely the .CO ccTLD could use a real cert? also it's not clear that the ipq.co service is really all that robust (if that'd matter to anyone) since ipq.co's nameservers: ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ipq.co.IN NS ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ipq.co. 900 IN NS A.NS.ipq.co. ipq.co. 900 IN NS B.NS.ipq.co. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: A.NS.ipq.co.900 IN A 212.110.169.105 B.NS.ipq.co.900 IN A 212.110.169.105 are the same host/ip.
Re: Convenience or slippery slope... or something else?
Jon Lewis wrote (on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 01:44:02PM -0400): On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Reese wrote: A friend brought this to my attention: http://ipq.co/ He saw it at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678324 I'm not sure whether to shriek in joy or in pain. Will data from this service - if it is a worthy service - propagate properly? Play nicely with or break other people's toys? Is it a gimmick? How's it going to break anything? I just created one... tentententen.ipq.co.86400 IN A 10.10.10.10 so...now I can use tentententen.ipq.co as a name that resolves to 10.10.10.10...assuming I trust ipq.co to keep that A record and not delete or change it at some point. Other than the fact that you can't change it[1], how is this any different (other than being less useful) or scarier than DynDNS? 1. EMAIL ADDRESS optional, but will allow you to update the record later (once we implement it) And now FF blocks it as a reported attack page. -- _ Nachman Yaakov Ziskind, FSPA, LLM aw...@ziskind.us Attorney and Counselor-at-Law http://ziskind.us Economic Group Pension Services http://egps.com Actuaries and Employee Benefit Consultants
Re: Convenience or slippery slope... or something else?
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:24 PM, N. Yaakov Ziskind aw...@ziskind.us wrote: Jon Lewis wrote (on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 01:44:02PM -0400): On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Reese wrote: A friend brought this to my attention: http://ipq.co/ And now FF blocks it as a reported attack page. Bound to happen... http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://ipq.co/ Over the past 90 days, ipq.co appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 4 site(s) including [...] (Domains removed so as to not trigger anyones anti-spam software...) Scott
Re: Convenience or slippery slope... or something else?
It's just a bunch of subdomain A records, what's it matter there are already thousands of such services in existence. -Jack Carrozzo On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Reese re...@inkworkswell.com wrote: A friend brought this to my attention: http://ipq.co/ He saw it at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678324 I'm not sure whether to shriek in joy or in pain. Will data from this service - if it is a worthy service - propagate properly? Play nicely with or break other people's toys? Is it a gimmick? Reese
Re: Convenience or slippery slope... or something else?
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Reese wrote: A friend brought this to my attention: http://ipq.co/ He saw it at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678324 I'm not sure whether to shriek in joy or in pain. Will data from this service - if it is a worthy service - propagate properly? Play nicely with or break other people's toys? Is it a gimmick? How's it going to break anything? I just created one... tentententen.ipq.co.86400 IN A 10.10.10.10 so...now I can use tentententen.ipq.co as a name that resolves to 10.10.10.10...assuming I trust ipq.co to keep that A record and not delete or change it at some point. Other than the fact that you can't change it[1], how is this any different (other than being less useful) or scarier than DynDNS? 1. EMAIL ADDRESS optional, but will allow you to update the record later (once we implement it) -- Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net| _ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_
Re: Convenience or slippery slope... or something else?
You need to go to qqwqaaqws.ipq.co to find out more... On 10 Sep 2010, at 18:44, Jon Lewis wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Reese wrote: A friend brought this to my attention: http://ipq.co/ He saw it at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1678324 I'm not sure whether to shriek in joy or in pain. Will data from this service - if it is a worthy service - propagate properly? Play nicely with or break other people's toys? Is it a gimmick? How's it going to break anything? I just created one... tentententen.ipq.co.86400 IN A 10.10.10.10 so...now I can use tentententen.ipq.co as a name that resolves to 10.10.10.10...assuming I trust ipq.co to keep that A record and not delete or change it at some point. Other than the fact that you can't change it[1], how is this any different (other than being less useful) or scarier than DynDNS? 1. EMAIL ADDRESS optional, but will allow you to update the record later (once we implement it) -- Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net| _ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_
