Re: [Fwd: zone transfers, a spammer's dream?]

2004-12-09 Thread Kandra Nygårds
Alex Bligh wrote: The irony of all this is that spammers already have all this information -- yet registrars have gone out of their way to make it as difficult as possible for everyone else to get it (rate-limiting queries and so on). They clearly don't "already have" this information, or they woul

Re: Change to .com/.net behavior

2003-09-17 Thread Kandra Nygårds
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > While I too am outraged by the actions of Verisign, I've decided to NOT > > modify my servers in any way. > > I might decide to block the sitefinder IP, but I will not change my > > nameservers into modifying DNS responses. Doing so would be to break things, > > *You

Re: Change to .com/.net behavior

2003-09-17 Thread Kandra Nygårds
From: "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Returning NXDOMAIN when a domain does not exist is a basic requirement. > Failure to do so creates security problems. It is reasonable to require your > customers to fix known breakage that creates security problems. I agree completely. However, this

Re: Verisign HOWTO

2003-09-16 Thread Kandra Nygårds
From: "Chris Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've been asked to forward this here on behalf of Martin A Brooks > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > http://www.hinterlands.org/ver/txt > > It's a 'How to get your IP block removed from the list that Verisign will > reply with SiteFinder for'. AKA, "click here to

Re: User negligence?

2003-07-27 Thread Kandra Nygårds
From: "Sean Donelan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Smartcard has become a marketing buzzword, and its difficult to figure out >what people are actually refering too. Sorry, wrong word. I was actually refering to SafeWord/SecureID/ActivCard type solutions, not "ATM cards with a chip". Sorry for the confus

Re: User negligence?

2003-07-27 Thread Kandra Nygårds
From: "Sean Donelan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Unfortunately there are a lot, and growing number, of self-infected PCs > on the net. As the banks point out, this is not a breach of the bank's > security. Nor is it a breach of the ISP's security. The user infects > his PC with a trojan and then the

Re: companies like microsoft and telia...

2003-06-25 Thread Kandra Nygårds
From: "Paul Vixie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > route:217.208.0.0/13 > descr:TELIANET-BLK > remarks: Abuse issues should be reported at > remarks: http://www.telia.com/security/ > remarks: Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be auto-replied > remarks: and referred to the U

Re: Less than 2% of computer attacks on military are successful

2003-01-17 Thread Kandra Nygårds
From: "jnull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > But the article also says less than 2% of the "attacks" resulted > > in a successful intrusion. > > 2% would be an embarrassingly large success rate for intrusion on a > "secured" military network. Not to mention the definition of "attack" the article seems

Re: COM/NET informational message

2003-01-03 Thread Kandra Nygårds
From: "E.B. Dreger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > BV> Before IDNA, some application developers had developed > BV> proprietary mechanisms designed to support IDNs. The Internet > > UTF-8 is a standard. MS products have used two-octet chars to > support Unicode for a long time. Any reason to add yet ano

Re: DNS 101

2002-11-29 Thread Kandra Nygårds
of the authority section. I assume this is what you're refering to. This is correct behavior, glue data is not an authorative answer and should therefore not be in the answer section. This was a misimplementation in BIND prior to version 9. Best regards, Kandra Nygårds