On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 04:39:13PM +0300, Vitalie Cherpec <[email protected]> wrote a message of 73 lines which said:
> After 5 years of running it without any issues, I've received today > a compliant through my ISP from a big company in a foreign country. It is a common problem with active measurements. I note that most of these complaints are stupid and misinformed. > They pretend that my VPS is attacking their infrastructure while > querying their DNS server's version and this request can be regarded > as cyber-terror attack Post the name of this Web server and we'll all send CH TXT version.bind queries to it :-) > I've blacklisted their DNS servers from being queried in the future, Do note that OARC maintains its list, which is simpler than doing it yourself: https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/dontprobe > I would like to know if querying version.bind is illegal (in some > countries)? IANAL but I suspect the moron who treathened you isn't either. In France, we received no formal complaint :-) Those who read french can see the result in <http://www.bortzmeyer.org/versions-serveurs-dns.html>. And speaking of security, pay attention to the CH TXT record of ns1.conostix.com :-) _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
