[juneau-lug] Re: Verisign DNS goofiness

  • From: Nels Tomlinson <nelstomlinson@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:18:19 -0800

Is there anything wrong with the idea of sending them requests for 
randomstringhere.com every second or so, just to show them how much we 
appreciate their efforts?   Wouldn't want them to feel that their nifty 
new service wasn't being used.  

I bet that if everyone who could copy a bash script was doing that, 
they'd get a nice warm feeling, as their servers overheated.   Or would 
it just waste our bandwidth and fill caches between them and us with crap?

If it works, it would probably be wortwhile to make a little script 
which would get a few dozen bytes from /dev/null, add .com onto the end 
and run hosts on the result.

Nels

James Zuelow wrote:

>I'm sure most of you have seen this on the web and/or AKLUG list, but it
>is still fun to play with.
>
>Verisign decided that if you mis-type a domain name, you should end up at
>the Verisign web page.  So they've configured their DNS servers to list
>their search page for domains that don't exist.  You can test this with
>the host command:
>
>host werasdsdvdadarewqw34d.com
>host asdfaeasefdavad.com
>host randomstringhere.com
>
>all return the same IP address.
>
>The problem is that there is no such thing as a non-existent domain
>anymore, so anti-spam filters that check for a valid DNS address won't
>work anymore, since EVERY domain will check out. Spammers can just make
>domains up out of the air, and must be absolutely loving it.
>
>Cheers,
>
>James
>
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