On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 05:36:29PM -0400, Warren Kumari wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:50 PM, SM <s...@resistor.net> wrote:
> >> Hi Chris,
> >>
> >> At 05:38 28-08-2014, Chris Thompson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The gTLD "otsuka", created sometime in the last 24 hours, appears to be
> >>> the
> >>> first to use the wildcards described at
> >>
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >>
> >>> What do people think about this business? Is anyone taking specific
> >>> precautions
> >>> to detect attempts to connect to 127.0.53.53?
> >>
> >>
> >> I presume that the people who invented this stuff know what they are doing.
> >
> > Mwahahahahahhah.... hahhhahaha.... teehee...
> >
> > Thanks, I needed that.
>
> So, I just realized that this sounded like a jab specifically at JAS
> (the folk who proposed the 127.0.53.53 answer) -- this was actually
> instead supposed to be a jab at everyone :-)
> I had long discussions with the JAS folk, and have huge respect for
> them - they did, IMO, a good job.
The really fun part (for me) is that depending on the OS you can ping
127.0.53.53. (eg: Linux, Yes, MacOS, No). Linux will also give you
Connection refused for TCP connections.
- Jared
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