[dns-operations] Typo in fox.com and an Akamai squatter

David C Lawrence tale at akamai.com
Mon Feb 1 17:35:18 UTC 2016


Chris Adams writes:
> - IIRC noc at akamai.com used to be a place to report issues with Akamai
>   stuff, but that bounced.  Is there a place to poke Akamai for
>   something like this?

Two Cs, nocc.  Your pleas to go with "noc" like the rest of the world
will find some sympathetic ears, but for reasons beyond my ken likely
won't result in any alias.

> - I understand that variable DNS responses makes DNSSEC hard, but that
>   would have prevented the site hijacking in this case (the bogus server
>   would not have been able to return valid signed responses).  Is Akamai
>   working on that?

We already support DNSSEC in our normal hosting product, which is what
these zones were.  Our dynamic zones are a different sort of problem,
but there is progress toward DNSSEC there as well.



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