Re: How do you get off ORBS nowadays?
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:31:47 +0200 (MET DST)
I'm not going to claim DNS expertise, but it seems to me that
NXdomain(relays.orbs.org)
responses would consume less bandidth than providing (faulty) data.
Gunnar
>From owner-anti-spam-wg@localhost Mon Jul 16 12:21:37 2001
>Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:21:16 +0200
>From: furio ercolessi furio+as@localhost
>To: Piet Beertema <Piet.Beertema@localhost
>Subject: Re: How do you get off ORBS nowadays?
>Message-ID: <20010716122116.E6374@localhost>
>References: <20010716115749.C6374@localhost> <UTC200107161011.MAA17446.piet@localhost>
>In-Reply-To: <UTC200107161011.MAA17446.piet@localhost>; from Piet.Beertema@localhost on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:11:08PM +0200
>On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 12:11:08PM +0200, Piet Beertema wrote:
>> > The guy running e-scrub.com was giving secondary service
>> > to orbs.org, NOT to relays.orbs.org.
>> Then why is he giving an *authoritative* answer for
>> <revaddr>.relays.orbs.org, with a TTL of 7 days and
>> without that TTL counting down?
>> And why is e-scrub.com the *only* secondary doing so?
>Because he found himself with his connection flooded by
>DNS queries after ORBS was disconnected, and wants to recover
>his bandwidth. I am not defending his choices, just reporting
>what he said. There is probably an announcement by him
>(Ron Guilmette) on news.admin.net-abuse.email (and other
>antispam forums such as SPAM-L).
>The other sites running the secondaries are probably not so concerned
>about the extra bandwidth.
>furio ercolessi
>Spin
