Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:41:49 +1000 From: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *.example.net Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010427133440.01ba5008@mail.ideal.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200104270326.NAA25642@tungsten.austclear.com.au> References: <Message from "Christopher Leigh" <clcont@gmx.net> <000b01c15e95$c4bb6cc0$0101a8c0@contrec>
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At 01:26 PM 27/04/2001, you wrote:
>I've never heard of anyone doing wildcard A records...
>
>Back in the days when people weren't very good at hiding hostnames
>in email they used to use wildcard MX records. They were generally
>considered a necessary evil, but people who had the skill were advised
>to hide the hostnames in email instead and abolish the wildcard MX.
>
>The reason I mention this is that the fundamental thing is the same--
>you're trying to solve a problem that shouldn't exist.
I remember about 18 months ago, a customer here who has a domain with a
dash in it rang us up asking why people were complaining that their website
was going to a porn site.
After I got a copy of one of the complaints, I discovered the person was
putting a . instead of a - in their domain name and it went to a domain
that has the entire domain mapped the above way.
The domain is poro.com and our customers address was like
www.foobar-poro.com to which the people were putting in www.foobar.poro.com
and it forwarded to the porn site.
I dont know what server software they are running, but poro.com seems to be
doing it.
Chris
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Chris Aitken - Webmaster/Database Designer - IDEAL Internet
email: chris@ideal.net.au phone: +61 2 4628 8888 fax: +61 2 4628 8890
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