so fix the spam hosts, don’t mask the problem and make more complicated for folks trying their best to solve
Colin > On 14 Apr 2015, at 15:09, Pavel Odintsov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, Colin! > > We use hexademical numbers in PTR for VPS/Servers because PTR's like > "host-87.118.199.240.domain.ru" so often banned by weird antispam > systems by mask \d+\.\d+\.\d+\d+ as home ISP subnets which produce > bunch of spam. > > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Colin Johnston <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Nikolay, I have obvious hit a cultural nerve here, if so I am sorry. >> At least there is communication on some level, Chinese colleagues would not >> even bother to respond to aid debug. >> >> Be that as it may, why not use either normal decimal numbers or normal >> characters to show what a normal person would understand instead of having >> to convert the shown output ? >> >> Colin >> >> >>> On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:54, Nikolay Shopik <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Are Roman numerals allowed in DNS? Because I know some people also do them. >>> >>> dig -x 217.199.208.190 >>> >>> >>> On 14/04/15 16:45, Chuck Church wrote: >>>> Comic Book Guy would probably declare: >>>> >>>> "Worst Naming Convention Ever" >>>> >>>> Chuck >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: NANOG [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston >>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM >>>> To: Nikolay Shopik >>>> Cc: <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: macomnet weird dns record >>>> >>>> Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad Best practice >>>> says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and >>>> hex >>>> >>>> Colin >>>> >>>>> On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:09, Nikolay Shopik <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records. >>>>> >>>>> On 14/04/15 15:36, Colin Johnston wrote: >>>>>> never saw hex in host dns records before. >>>>>> host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.0xfffffff0.macomnet.net >>>>>> >>>>>> range is blocked non the less since bad traffic from Russia network >>>> ranges. >>>>>> >>>>>> Colin >>>>>> >>>> >> > > > > -- > Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov
