[dns-operations] blocking recursers

Mon Mar 27 08:23:02 UTC 2006

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:28:28PM +0100,
 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote 
 a message of 24 lines which said:

> Advice to everyone on the list, including myself: educate, spread
> the news, teach, inform DNS administrators. For instance, AFNIC is
> *considering* sending a warning to each of its registrars about ORNs
> but it has not been done yet. So, it would be harsh if we suddenly
> started to blacklist ORNs.

A survey I just ran over the nameservers of ".fr" show that 63 % of
them are also ORN, which is quite worrying (and authoritative
nameservers of a TLD are not the only ORN in the wild).