[dns-operations] Handling broken domains...

David Ulevitch davidu at everydns.net
Mon Jul 17 18:19:34 UTC 2006


On Jul 17, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Paul Vixie wrote:

>> How is this handled elsewhere in other resolver implementations?
>>
>> I'm trying to decide how to best fix it.
>
> what's supposed to happen is, this domain should mostly not work, the
> the person who broke it will get complaints about it, and then fix it.
>
> RDNS implementors/operators who work around this kind of breakage are
> keeping the right thing from happening.  my advice is: "let it burn."

The cure does seems worse than the disease.  Still looking into it  
though...

I wonder how far contacting the domain owner scales.  We're up to 2  
or 3 of these domains right now. :-(

-david




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