Dear Colleagues, In January 2007, RIPE Document ripe-400 was created to address lameness in the reverse DNS tree. This RIPE Document can be found online at: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-400.html We have been monitoring name servers for some time now and statistics from the data gathered have been published online each month at: http://www.ripe.net/info/stats/dns-lameness/ We are now ready to start sending out notifications to the maintainers of these zones, alerting them to a problem. The e-mail messages will point to the DNS Lameness FAQs, which explain the possible problems and give some pointers to help solve them. The FAQs can be found online at: http://www.ripe.net/info/stats/dns-lameness/faq.html Initially, we will send less then 100 e-mails to various contacts. This number will increase over the following months until all maintainers with lame servers are contacted. Kind regards, Sjoerd Oostdijk DNS Services Group The RIPE NCC
* Sjoerd Oostdijck:
We are now ready to start sending out notifications to the maintainers of these zones, alerting them to a problem. The e-mail messages will point to the DNS Lameness FAQs, which explain the possible problems and give some pointers to help solve them.
Could you delay this a bit? Yet another type of DNS-related notification doesn't really help right now, I think. Or am I overly sensitive?
Florian Weimer wrote:
* Sjoerd Oostdijck:
We are now ready to start sending out notifications to the maintainers of these zones, alerting them to a problem. The e-mail messages will point to the DNS Lameness FAQs, which explain the possible problems and give some pointers to help solve them.
Could you delay this a bit? Yet another type of DNS-related notification doesn't really help right now, I think.
Or am I overly sensitive?
No, I agree. Please delay. We are in the middle of some sort of a 'Kaminsky awarness campaign', which is difficult enough as it is - for some sysadmins. Thanks. -- Marco Davids SIDN / ICT
Florian Weimer wrote:
* Sjoerd Oostdijck:
We are now ready to start sending out notifications to the maintainers of these zones, alerting them to a problem. The e-mail messages will point to the DNS Lameness FAQs, which explain the possible problems and give some pointers to help solve them.
Could you delay this a bit? Yet another type of DNS-related notification doesn't really help right now, I think.
I have a different view which is that in the current climate where attention is being focused on the importance of "good" DNS it may be easier for admins that want to fix this but have had trouble getting permission to allocate the necessary time/resources/etc. to actually be able to tackle this issue. hth, Doug
On Jul 31, 2008, at 20:21, Florian Weimer wrote:
Could you delay this a bit? Yet another type of DNS-related notification doesn't really help right now, I think.
I tend to agree. The reference to "sending less than 100 warning emails" is a little unsettling. Someone who's in receipt of these messages is likely to find them annoying. And what if these emails go to an address that can't do anything about the broken name servers?
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