[dns-operations] DNS whitelisting

[David Ulevitch]

On Mar 7, 2006, at 2:44 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:

>> linuxbox.org was an open DNS relay -- should I really be blocking  
>> its  users from resolving our ~1,000,000 resource records at  
>> everydns?  I  don't think so.  Plus, how would you ever be able to  
>> send me email  again? ... on second thought... j/k :-)
>
> What you see and what you think you see are not always the same  
> thing. :)
> Not everything has to be an honey pot, either.

Yep -- another good argument against blocking.  To quote Paul, people  
often do "stupid dns tricks."  They shouldn't be punished for it.

-david