[NA-Discuss] DNS oddity

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

John and all,

  It's actually worse that you indicate John.

See:http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=infonec.com&token=049033e9da145c032ff361821f679019

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=infonec.ca&token=04308212bee656932fe322822274d019


-----Original Message-----
>From: John Levine <johnl at iecc.com>
>Sent: May 4, 2008 9:25 PM
>To: Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>
>Cc: NA Discuss <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
>Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] DNS oddity
>
>> The message below appeared in a mailing list from a member of my ALS.
>> I don't myself know enough DNS mechanics to verify what the poster said.
>
>He's confused.  I can explain in detail if you want, but it's clear that 
>what happened is that www.infonec.ca is set up as an alias for 
>www.infonec.com, and they forgot to renew the .com so NSI pointed it at 
>their expired domain servers until he paid.  All the registrars I know 
>would do the same thing.
>
>The "suspicious" stuff re authority sections is perfectly normal since the 
>DNS server for infonec.ca is also the server for infonec.com.
>
>R's,
>John
>
>PS: The previous claim of NSI hijacking wildcard domains was wrong, too. 
>The only evil I've seen them do recently is AGP frontrunning of domains 
>that people ask about but don't buy.
>
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