You're a good man, Aaron. I don't have the time to go fix everyone else's problems... otherwise, I'd probably be working at Microsoft by now ...lol.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron S. Joyner Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:53 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TriLUG] DNS Joke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >at least they wont get any spam! > >Jason > >On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:29:07PM -0400, Brian McCullough >wrote: > > >>Just ran across a hilarious DNS entry. >> >> >>~/$ host mail.qualitychrome.com >>mail.qualitychrome.com has address 10.0.0.2 >>-- >>TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug >>TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member >>Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ >> >> Rather than a joke it's just an unfortunate state of affairs. It's bad for anyone on the internet proper who tries to send them email, because it'll get stuck in their mail queue for as long as 5 days before giving up, and it's bad for them because they may not even realize it (after all, internal email works, right?). On the flip side, they may not intend to have that information published on the internet. Ie. that they probably have a not-so-well-configured server at an internal address 10.0.0.2, which if their dns setup is any indication, you might be able to slide through their NAT firewall and get access to surreptitiously. The right thing to do in these situations, is to copy the contact in the SOA record: [EMAIL PROTECTED] asjoyner]$ dig +short qualitychrome.com soa ns1.diney.com. hostmaster.diney.com. 2006051015 3600 600 1209600 3600 Since it's a different domain, I'll also point this out: [EMAIL PROTECTED] asjoyner]$ dig +short diney.com mx 10 mail.diney.com. [EMAIL PROTECTED] asjoyner]$ dig +short diney.com soa ns1.diney.com. root.diney.com. 2004080428 3600 600 1209600 3600 For good measure, I've copied root and hostmaster at diney dot com on this message, in hopes that it might reach a human. It's entirely possible that it won't, but it's the responsible thing to do. As a side note, it would be ideal to have done it before commenting on it in a public forum, to give them some lead time to respond before the bad guys, but it's a little late for that. There's probably no harm done. Aaron S. Joyner -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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