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["Alex M (Coyo)" <coyo AT darkdna.net>]

On 06/11/2013 01:13 AM, Quinn Wood wrote:
> On 6/10/13, Alex Hanselka <alex AT opennicproject.org> wrote:
> > Interesting.  Since this is unlikely to be used for any real dns info
> > there is likely a way to just kill any packets requesting that (I suck
> > at iptables).  Or perhaps just putting up an empty dummy zone.
> Perhaps instead of making claims that a zone won't be used for
> anything than attacks backed on its name, folks should perform
> heuristics checks on, I don't know, the actual zone.
>
> Any Tom, Dick, or Harry can register stopddos.est and pop the same
> records into it.

Cute.

That isn't a suspicious canonical name at all.

Nope! Nothing to see here, folks, move along!

Totally not the adversaries you are looking for. :D