From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 20:41:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ideal.net.au (ion.ideal.net.au [203.20.241.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB56837B424 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@ideal.net.au) Received: from helium.ideal.net.au (helium.staff.ideal.net.au [202.3.35.2]) by mail.ideal.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA66900 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:41:27 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from chris@ideal.net.au) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010427133440.01ba5008@mail.ideal.net.au> X-Sender: chris@mail.ideal.net.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:41:49 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Chris Aitken Subject: Re: *.example.net In-Reply-To: <200104270326.NAA25642@tungsten.austclear.com.au> References: <000b01c15e95$c4bb6cc0$0101a8c0@contrec> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Chris Aitken - Webmaster/Database Designer - IDEAL Internet email: chris@ideal.net.au phone: +61 2 4628 8888 fax: +61 2 4628 8890 -------------------------------------------- Unix -- because a computer's a terrible thing to waste! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message