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["A.J. Maurin" <coyo AT darkdna.net>]

I vote in favor of this. It's reasonable to expect us users to make 
accounts and login somehow, rather than expose opennic to this abuse.

Julian DeMarchi wrote:
> I think the time has come for OpenNIC to no longer have open resolvers
> and move to a subscription based service.
>
> Thoughts, ideas?
Why not use an PTPP VPN, where the resolvers only resolve for VPN 
addresses? For those that want plug-and-play, you can use physical or 
virtual OpenWRT, DD-WRT or Tomato routers which handle the VPN.

Basically, if any of the VPN users misbehave, send em an email, and if 
there's no response, kick em off.

If the resolvers are exposed only with a VPN, where only VPN addresses 
are whitelisted, the VPN can handle authentication and recordkeeping.