[dns-operations] Querying version.bind illegal?

[Jeroen Massar]

On 2013-05-23 15:58 , Phil Regnauld wrote:
[..]
> 	If this were a repeated and automated querying (say, using some company's
> 	web server as a target in Nagios to verify connectivity outside your
> 	network, or even doing regular polling for statistics purposes), you could
> 	argue that it's not very polite if you're not a customer of said ISP and
> 	you didn't ask for permission beforehand [1]
[..]
> 	[1] Of course, in the case of an automated measurement project, you can't
> 	realistically go and ask permission from everyone beforehand, but you
> 	may still want to have an informational page explaining what the service
> 	does and why the queries are benign.

Please, do NOT go there. If you are automatically querying somebody
else's service on a regular basis, ASK PERMISSION FIRST.

Yes, doing one query once in a while (eg only once month or so) is
typically quite fine for most operators, they won't be annoyed with that
as heck that is normal behavior; automation is not normal.

The moment though you start automatically querying other people's
services, they will block you or otherwise make sure that you will not
perform that any more.

Greets,
 Jeroen