[Gllug] DNS question

[Ian Northeast]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 20:38 +0100, Ian Northeast wrote:
> 
> 
>>He does have a point though. Where DNS is concerned it is extremely hard 
>>to help someone who won't divulge all the information. The bind mailing 
>>list is full of complaints from potential helpers when people ask 
>>questions and obfuscate the information.
>>
>>And although you asked about records pointing to subnets, the "example" 
>>you gave, where the output of dig had clearly been edited, did not show 
>>this. If you had provided real data, we could have checked.
>>
>>See my other reply, which I sent before seeing this exchange.
>>
> 
> 
> I still don't see the point of leaving a permanent record of some other
> company's name in a post like this - that's all this was about, not
> about a misguided sense of security through obscurity.
> 
> Thanks, though, you've answered my question - as the dig output was from
> the authoritative DNS then clearly there is something broken as I am
> very clear I have never entered that broadcast address.

Well in all fairness it isn't that clear, not to me anyway, as the dig 
output you quoted had been edited. We have no way to tell how much of it 
you edited. You did not give us a chance to check for ourselves.

Regards, Ian

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