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> -- Patrick Okui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Administrator One2Net (U) Ltd --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
