email problems

[geer at atstake.com (Dan Geer)]

I shared this:

    > There have apparently been some net-wide DNS issues this week and
    > last week--my company has been fighting them also.  I've also had
    > *much* more than the usual level of headaches when dealing with
    > Network Solutions in the past two weeks.  I don't know if the two
    > are related, but it wouldn't surprise me.

with some of my staff, one of whom offers:

    > It may be related to the huge spamming problems that UUNet have had
    > the last few weeks - I know that they stated that emails would (and
    > have been) severely affected and that problems may extend to this
    > week as well - I don't know if USDataCenters have UUNet as an
    > upstream ?  Anyway, blu.org will have some DNS problems of their
    > own if anyone hits them - their auth nameserver at tarnhelm.blu.org
    > (says) it is running BIND 8.1.2 and so may be vulnerable to the
    > NAPTR, MAXDNAME and SOLINGER DoS attacks; and it zone transfers :(
    > Not good - only looked as they said they had DNS issues....  can
    > you drop them a polite note to that effect ?  Very very happy to
    > see the usdatacenter nameservers respond with "surely you must be
    > joking" when queried for a BIND version :)   Nice touch.

In struggle,

--dan

-
Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with
"subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the
message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).