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>From: "Keith Ivey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> List Mail User wrote:
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>> > Legitimate domains will use wildcards for 'NS', 'MX' and even
>> > occasionally for some more obscure records, but an 'A' or 'CNAME'
>> > record is nearly always a spammer.
>>
>> Do you have any statistics for that? I administer plenty of domains
>> that have wildcard A records, and I'm not a spammer. And are
>> metafilter.com, dailykos.com, and livejournal.com all spammers now?
>>
>> --
>> Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Washington, DC
>
>One must wonder at their motivations for allowing things like
>wassyup.metazeek.spindrift.metafilter.com. Is there a good one?
>
>{^_^}
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Unrelated to Keith's case, I recently found a few name servers (in
China, of course) where the zone file contained simply the case of "*."
for any domains it accepted queries for. This certainly made things simpler
for the smap service provider, but could give some strange results (i.e. it
could be "tricked" into recursive lookups and give very strange answers to
queries on tlds). Still, this was new and somewhat elegant. Also, there
is no possible valid reason for that wildcard case (i.e. "*.") as an 'A'
record - even being lazy just doesn't cut it.
Paul Shupak
[EMAIL PROTECTED],com
