Re: [ipv6-wg@ripe.net] DNS Weather Report 2004-09-07

[Daniel Karrenberg <]

On 08.09 18:09, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 17:07, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> > Since a storm seems to be rising about this 
> > and it threatens to leave the tea cup here 
> > is some perspective. 
> 
> Which book is that from?

My own ;-). 

> I really can't call it spam ...

A matter of definition.  Maybe I was a bit harsh using the word spam. 
My feeble excuse for being harsher than usual is that
<rant>
I returned from holidays recently found my daniel.karrenberg@localhost
mailbox had grown about 3000 messages **each day**.  Also the
spam-filtering of the NCC was not only letting about 10% of it through
but was also starting to generate false positives.  This SPAM filtering
is maintained by competent professionals, and *still* I have to resort
to personal whitelisting now and spend significant amout of time to weed out
messages which I do not want. 
</rant>

Daniel sent these messages to multiple mailing lists and he did not take
the hint when his messages were not re-distributed to nanog; instead he
sent them twice with different message-ids, causing the messages to land
in my mailbox twice.  So I decided to give him another hint, he took it
as an official request, and the storm-in-a-teacup started. 

> ... 
> Which sources may that be that report about nameservers?
> (There is unfortunatly no IPv6-wg resource page and google can't
> seem to find them for me either)

google(dns delegation check) does it for me.  The fourth hit is for 	
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/dns/r45-minutes.html
Check out agenda point F. There are tools available with well
defined and discussed methodologies.

> Next to that, it is quite apparent that the operator(s) in question
> are not really watching their own infrastructure, which is basically
> their work, at all.... that gives one to wonder...

I agree. But why do regular messages about this belong into the mailbox
of all subscribers of all the lists Daniel posts to?

> > It would have been more acceptable to say something like:
> > "Hey, I have made this useful report. What do you think about it?
> > If you are interested you can subscribe to regular reports here." 
> 
> Indeed, where can I request to signup for this as I think it is very
> useful ....

Daniel?


Daniel