Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/14/2015 08:51, Colin Johnston wrote: Get real, why make is hard for others to debug abuse issues, another reason why blocks in place as no technical cooperation. Because "others" has a subset = "dreaded anti-spammers". -- The unique Characteristics of System Administrators: The fact tha

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 4/14/2015 08:26, Colin Johnston wrote: 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 Which is precisely why spammers have been doing it for years. -- The unique Characteristics of Sys

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 14/04/15 06:26, Colin Johnston wrote: > Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix > of dec and hex Can you please cite the best practice document where this is stated? Thanks.

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Pavel Odintsov wrote: > 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. Hi Pavel, Actu

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread manning bill
perfectly legal… the octal records confuse me more than the hex. /bill PO Box 12317 Marina del Rey, CA 90295 310.322.8102 On 14April2015Tuesday, at 5:36, Colin Johnston wrote: > never saw hex in host dns records before. > host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.0xfff0.macomnet.net > > range is bl

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:26:48 +0100, Colin Johnston said: > Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix > of dec and hex Odd. All the hex and decimal have proper indicators (initial 1-9 or 0x), and should be easily understood by anybody who actually knows their nu

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
Yep, last time I've checked and internet isn't running on communism. On 14/04/15 18:05, Rod Beck wrote: > Private benefit is less than social (sum of private benefits across all > affected parties) benefit.

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
User complain that his network slow and reliable. Check if its saturated his link and tell him buy additional 10mbps/s, here is your profit. If you really want fight bots, you need to track down and fight C&C in first place. Otherwise you are fighting windmills. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Rod Beck
Sounds like a textbook economics case of a network externality. The benefit to the provider is far less than the benefit to the entire affected community. Private benefit is less than social (sum of private benefits across all affected parties) benefit. Roderick Beck Sales Director/Europe and t

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
There becomes a point though that doing nothing allows larger problems which could have been nipped in the bud if sorted when issue was a smaller magnitude. Profit when there is known bad traffic as a percentage and you known ignore it is bad profit and does not help the greater good. most folks

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
Transit traffic isn't issue, as upload/download ratio usually 1:2 or more. As I said before when you already on edge of your profits, you don't bother fixing these clients. Its not about best practice which I agree, but business you are running, which is suppose to be profitable. And fixing these

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
t;>> >>> On 14/04/15 16:45, Chuck Church wrote: >>>> Comic Book Guy would probably declare: >>>> >>>> "Worst Naming Convention Ever" >>>> >>>> Chuck >>>> >>>> -Original Message- >>>&g

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Pavel Odintsov
190 >>>> >>>> >>>> On 14/04/15 16:45, Chuck Church wrote: >>>>> Comic Book Guy would probably declare: >>>>> >>>>> "Worst Naming Convention Ever" >>>>> >>>>> Chuck >>>>

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
; 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 >>>> >

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread William Waites
Colin, I understand that you would like everyone on the Internet to behave in a way that you consider normal and tailor their reverse DNS so as not to offend your aesthetic sense. It is frustrating when other people do things differently, my deepest sympathies. Also if you have ever used a BSD sys

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
This is probably worse then hexadecimal PTR records :). No traceroute actually convert punycode, so why bother? As it usually intended audience already know how to read English letters. On 14/04/15 17:00, Pavel Odintsov wrote: > What about IDN encoded PTR records? I sure it's nice idea and I will

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
y would probably declare: >>> >>> "Worst Naming Convention Ever" >>> >>> Chuck >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston >>> Sent: Tuesday, April

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Pavel Odintsov
-- >>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston >>> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM >>> To: Nikolay Shopik >>> Cc: >>> Subject: Re: macomnet weird dns record >>> >>> Because looks strange especially if

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Niels Bakker
* col...@gt86car.org.uk (Colin Johnston) [Tue 14 Apr 2015, 16:05 CEST]: 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 ? I actually thought it was quite clever and the

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
wrote: >> Comic Book Guy would probably declare: >> >> "Worst Naming Convention Ever" >> >> Chuck >> >> -Original Message- >> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston >> Sent: Tuesday, April

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Pavel Odintsov
lin Johnston >> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM >> To: Nikolay Shopik >> Cc: >> 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

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
gt; From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM > To: Nikolay Shopik > Cc: > Subject: Re: macomnet weird dns record > > Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad Best practice > says avoid such

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
Get real, why make is hard for others to debug abuse issues, another reason why blocks in place as no technical cooperation. Colin > On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:48, Nikolay Shopik wrote: > > Then best practice, that naming should be helpful for owners of network > in first place and only afterwards

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
Then best practice, that naming should be helpful for owners of network in first place and only afterwards everyone else. On 14/04/15 16:26, Colin Johnston wrote: > Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad > Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug si

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 02:26:48PM +0100, Colin Johnston wrote a message of 19 lines which said: > Best practice says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug > since mix of dec and hex No. Pure imagination on your side. There is no such "best practice". And it's not hex or dec, it is

RE: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Chuck Church
Comic Book Guy would probably declare: "Worst Naming Convention Ever" Chuck -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM To: Nikolay Shopik Cc: Subject: Re: macomnet weird dns record Bec

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
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 wrote: > > How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records. > > On 14/04/15 15:36,

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:09:42PM +0300, Nikolay Shopik wrote a message of 10 lines which said: > How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records. And they probably encode the netmask, which may be useful.

Re: macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Nikolay Shopik
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.87.118.199.240.0xfff0.macomnet.net > > range is blocked non the less since bad traffic from Russia network ranges. > > Colin >

macomnet weird dns record

2015-04-14 Thread Colin Johnston
never saw hex in host dns records before. host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.0xfff0.macomnet.net range is blocked non the less since bad traffic from Russia network ranges. Colin