Re: [dns-operations] email address in SOA

2012-12-10 Thread Chris Thompson
On Dec 6 2012, Joe Abley wrote, in re the SOA.rname field: It's used for (a) legitimate operational communication with a zone maintainer, and (b) source data for people harvesting addresses in order to send spam. Since the e-mail resulting from (b) greatly outnumbers the e-mail resulting from

Re: [dns-operations] email address in SOA

2012-12-10 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
If anyone has any actual evidence of SOA data being used for spam I'd love to see it .. -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.com/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ http://mneylon.tel/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Locall: 1850 929 929 Dir

Re: [dns-operations] email address in SOA

2012-12-10 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Chris Thompson Reply-To: "c...@cam.ac.uk" Date: Monday, December 10, 2012 9:40 AM To: Joe Abley Cc: DNS Operations List Subject: Re: [dns-operations] email address in SOA >On Dec 6 2012, Joe Abley wrote, in re the SOA.rname field: > >>It's used for >> >>(a) le

Re: [dns-operations] email address in SOA

2012-12-10 Thread Edward Lewis
On Dec 10, 2012, at 9:46, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote: > If anyone has any actual evidence of SOA data being used for spam I'd love to > see it .. Reading this thread and replying in general, no one is claiming that the RNAME leads to spam, it's that one (one!) of the old spouse's tale

Re: [dns-operations] DNSSEC validation failures for reverse delegations?

2012-12-10 Thread Arth Paulite
Hi All, Here's the brief report of DNSSEC outage in APNIC over the weekend. We apologize if this caused any inconvenience. Our active DNSSEC signer lost connectivity after a switch failure on 7 December 19:00 UTC+10. While the primary DNSSEC signer is offline, incoming updates on APNIC reverse zo

Re: [dns-operations] email address in SOA

2012-12-10 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/10/2012 06:46 AM, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote: If anyone has any actual evidence of SOA data being used for spam I'd love to see it .. I've been party to floods of spam arriving at various hostmaster@ addresses, but I think that had everything to do with that specific address (a