Hi,

On 16 Sep 2003 01:57:58 -0700 Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Kristian Koehntopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > How does this affect SpamAssassin and if it does, what are we doing
> > about this?
> 
> It has a very negative effect on some tests, particularly
> NO_DNS_FOR_FROM which caught roughly 2% of spam with a 99.9% accuracy
> rate (those are my real-time numbers which are better than my corpus
> numbers since the test is highly time-sensitive).
> 
> If you object to the change, complaining to ICANN and Verisign might not
> hurt.  If you take the further step of switching your registrations
> elsewhere, I would suggest calling Verisign to let them know why (and
> give them your name and the domain name you have moved so they know you
> were a paying customer).
> 
> As far as the SpamAssassin DNS tests go, I'm thinking about the best
> course of action.  Someone might come up with a better solution (that
> requires less work on our part) than treating their web server IP
> address to be the same thing as NXDOMAIN.

Does this recent post to SPAM-L help?

From: Bruce Gingery
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: list only or author only please <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC: The world's crazy
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 04:59:37 -0600

In one night:

1. splat A records at nameservers that should only have NS records
   at the following top-level domain servers:

      Corrupted                    Bogus IPv4 address(es)
    Top Level Domain          and who-is-announcing route to it
    =================         =================================
        *.ac                    A  194.205.62.122
                                AS 5378 - Clueless & Witless .UK

        *.cc                    A  206.253.214.102
                                AS 6993 - PNAP

        *.com                   A  64.94.110.11
                                AS 30060 - VeriSign

        *.cx                    A  219.88.106.80
                                AS 4648 - Netgate .NZ

        *.museum                A  195.7.77.20
                                AS 8195 - Clueless & Witless .SE

        *.net                   A  64.94.110.11
                                AS 30060 - VeriSign

        *.nu                    A  64.55.105.9
                                AS 2548 - ALGX
                        and     A  212.181.91.6
                                AS 3301 - TeliaNet  .SE

        *.sh                    A  194.205.62.62
                                AS 5378 - Clueless & Witless .UK

        *.tm                    A  194.205.62.62
                                AS 5378 - Clueless & Witless .UK

        *.ws                    A  216.35.187.246
                                AS 3561 - Clueless & Witless .US

   Internet death penalties pending.

-- 
Bob Apthorpe


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