Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:25:12 -0500 From: "Derik Wilson" <dwilson32@kc.rr.com> To: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DNS Question (quite a bit OT) Message-ID: <005101c3518a$d26d21d0$27451c41@webkl7bcj7ou3q> References: <3F1EDA3F.1998.C3F0EA@localhost> <a06001207bb4471eba341@[10.0.1.2]>
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Man! You guys are way over my head. (*Extreme freeBSD newbie here*) But I'll
try to keep up and learn from you all.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
To: "Nils Holland" <nils@thunderbridge.de>
Cc: <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: DNS Question (quite a bit OT)
> At 6:55 PM +0200 2003/07/23, Nils Holland wrote:
>
> > What you have found out is actually correct, and that's the problem,
> > because you I want to change it. The nameservers currently
"responsible"
> > for thunderbridge.de are ns{1,2}.modwest.com.
>
> Ahh, okay. I missed that part. Sorry!
>
> > It has also been set up
> > Concerning the other "oddities" you have discovered: I don't care much
> > about Modwest once I'm out of there, but I will let the
loadbalanced.net
> > folks know about them.
>
> Just keep in mind that any zones you have hosted on their
> machines are vulnerable, and any machines within those zones could be
> more easily broken into by using them as a vector. If you're not
> going to work with them to try to help them get their stuff fixed
> before you move, then you want to be quick about moving your stuff
> somewhere else.
>
> > Interestingly, these folks don't seem to have
> > much of a clue about DNS anyway, upon my first type=soa query I sent to
> > their servers yesterday, I saw that the serial for both
thunderbridge.de
> > and loadbalanced.net was set to 0. Even I know that this isn't too
> > sane, and I bet DeNIC would also have complained about this, if it
> > hadn't been corrected.
>
> An SOA serial number of 0 is technically legal, but would almost
> certainly have raised additional flags at DEnic.
>
> > And thanks for your suggestions, I'll have a look at the debugging
> > tools you mentioned, so I get more of a clue about this myself ;-)
>
> Good luck!
>
> --
> Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
>
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
>
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N+
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