RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 8:39 AM Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, delegation is the other, more usual, way that the nameserver in the whois and

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The TLD root servers delegate the control of the II level domain to the NS servers defined at registration time. That is delegation. But from there, warping the entire domain to different NSes is not

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 12:23 PM Quoting Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The TLD root servers delegate the control of the II level domain to the NS servers

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 12:23 PM Quoting Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The TLD root servers delegate the control of the

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: DNS works by delegation from parent zones to child zones. Or more generally from one zone to another. DNS is built on delegation. Some spammers abuse delegation in unusual ways, but not all unusual delegation is abuse. Jeff C.

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 4:33 PM There are lots of legitimate reasons to delegate zones, for example, migration to a new nameserver. I suggest you ask someone who runs major nameservers. I have. This is a

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There are lots of legitimate reasons to delegate zones, for example, migration to a new nameserver. I suggest you ask someone who runs major nameservers. I have. This is a temporary solution. Later you

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matt Kettler wrote: Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: It doesn't use whois *instead of* dns. It uses both and attempts even to detect any discrepancy between their responses. Both types of queries can cause problems. How are these going to be different??

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 2:21 AM Matt Kettler wrote: Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: It doesn't use whois *instead of* dns. It uses both and attempts even to detect any discrepancy between their responses.

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 9:37 AM Quoting Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matt Kettler wrote: Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: It doesn't use whois *instead of* dns. It uses both and attempts even to detect any

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Justin Mason
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Well, I use and like URIBL_SBL, but please note that a centralized solution may easily be fooled the other way around, by giving it RRs which are not the ones most people will see and will query for through the URIBL_SBL itself. In order to do this spammer only

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:25 AM Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Well, I use and like URIBL_SBL, but please note that a centralized solution may easily be fooled the other way around, by giving it RRs

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, delegation is the other, more usual, way that the nameserver in the whois and TLD root server may differ. Some spammers do make use of a lot of delegation, more than usual and sometimes in long

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 5:51 PM Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please note that one generally can't issue a DNS request to a specific server from SA, since its resolver engine only uses the

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Matt Kettler
Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matt Kettler wrote: Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: It doesn't use whois *instead of* dns. It uses both and attempts even to detect any discrepancy between their responses. Both types of queries can cause problems. How are these going

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Matt Kettler
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 2:21 AM Ahh, I see what you're doing, you're looking up the SOA. Which is basically forcing the query down to the spammer's DNS server, and opening yourself up

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please note that one generally can't issue a DNS request to a specific server from SA, since its resolver engine only uses the globally-defined DNS server(s). Thereby, in the common case I should get the NSes published by root servers, which should

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 3:07 PM Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matt Kettler wrote: Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: It doesn't use whois *instead of* dns. It uses both and attempts

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-24 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:38 AM Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Right, it is. The URIWhois does not detect the registrar. It detects the name and the address of the DNS- and whois-defined NSes for that

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-24 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The only big difference I see at face value is it uses whois instead of DNS to find the NS records.. that hardly seems efficient.. Whois is definitely the wrong protocol to use for automated testing,

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-24 Thread Matt Kettler
John D. Hardin wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The only big difference I see at face value is it uses whois instead of DNS to find the NS records.. that hardly seems efficient.. Whois is definitely the wrong protocol to use

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:38 AM Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Right, it is. The URIWhois does not detect the registrar. It detects the name and the address of the DNS-

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Matt Kettler wrote: Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: It doesn't use whois *instead of* dns. It uses both and attempts even to detect any discrepancy between their responses. How are these going to be different?? The information published to whois has to match the information published to the

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-23 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, ram wrote: Allegedly 100% spam. Innocent until proven guilty, ect. NUCLEAR NAMES, INC. I would love to block all domains with these , but to think of it what is there to prevent them from getting themselves whitelisted by registering good domains There's a

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-23 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: ram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:36 PM ...omissis... Again, no registrar check, sorry. You could eventually use the: uri_whois nsname or the uri_whois nsaddr tests to attempt catch these. I think I am missing something

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Right, it is. The URIWhois does not detect the registrar. It detects the name and the address of the DNS- and whois-defined NSes for that domain. So how is this substantially different from the URIDNSBL plugin that comes with SA? Bear in mind this plugin

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-23 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The only big difference I see at face value is it uses whois instead of DNS to find the NS records.. that hardly seems efficient.. Whois is definitely the wrong protocol to use for automated testing, especially for any high volumes. It was not

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-22 Thread Chris Santerre
As far as blacklisting entire registrars, can you tell us any registrars that are 100% bad? I can't. Jeff C. Allegedly 100% spam. Innocent until proven guilty, ect. NUCLEAR NAMES, INC. RED PILLAR, INC. MOUZZ INTERACTIVE INC. NAMEVIEW, INC. SOLID HUB, INC. COMPANA, LLC RED

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-22 Thread ram
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 11:34 -0500, Chris Santerre wrote: As far as blacklisting entire registrars, can you tell us any registrars that are 100% bad? I can't. Jeff C. Allegedly 100% spam. Innocent until proven guilty, ect. NUCLEAR NAMES, INC. RED PILLAR, INC. MOUZZ

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-21 Thread ram
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:38 +0100, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: -Original Message- From: ram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:47 AM I had read about the whois plugin into SA. But I cant seem to find it now Can someone tell me how do I install this

whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-19 Thread ram
I had read about the whois plugin into SA. But I cant seem to find it now Can someone tell me how do I install this I beleive that could be a very effective idea to score on domain names who have bad registrars Every hour hundreds of domains get registered purely for the purpose of spamming.

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-19 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting ram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I had read about the whois plugin into SA. But I cant seem to find it now Can someone tell me how do I install this I beleive that could be a very effective idea to score on domain names who have bad registrars Every hour hundreds of domains get registered

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-19 Thread ram
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 04:51 -0600, Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting ram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I had read about the whois plugin into SA. But I cant seem to find it now Can someone tell me how do I install this I beleive that could be a very effective idea to score on domain names who have bad

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-19 Thread Per Jessen
ram wrote: I hope this would change. Whois information must be standardized and must be available for automated queries whois.rfc-ignorant.org lists at least 165 top-level domains that have no whois server or provides incomplete data. This includes TLDs such as .dk, .de and .eu. /Per

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-19 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: ram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:47 AM I had read about the whois plugin into SA. But I cant seem to find it now Can someone tell me how do I install this You can get a copy of the uriwhois plugin at:

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-19 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Giampaolo Tomassoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 1:38 PM ...omissis... In my own case, I see that the traffic of my MX servers is so low that no registrar banned my queries... However, most gTLD registries don't run a

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-19 Thread jdow
From: ram [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 2008, January 19 03:14 On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 04:51 -0600, Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting ram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I had read about the whois plugin into SA. But I cant seem to find it now Can someone tell me how do I install this I beleive that could be