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Lead Scientist Responds to Questions on Root Server Queries

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anti-spam-measure-backlash dept.

cidtoday writes "A CircleID interview with the lead scientist whose study recently revealed that 98% of a main root server queries are unnecessary, reveals that spam has little to do with the issue. In fact, he provides two reasons why anti-spam tools cause more unnecessary queries to the root servers than spam emails. Many other questions previously raised by Slashdot readers on the study are also answered."

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  1. Spam E-mail with broken links... by $$$$$exyGal · · Score: 5, Interesting
    spam emails floating around in people's inboxes, many of which contain broken links that cause bad DNS lookups

    Here's a link that lists how some spammers attempt to hide their real identities. This isn't necessarily exactly what the root server query guy was talking about, or maybe it is? Either way, it is very enlightening. Some slashdotters even occasionally try to hide a goatse link this way.

    --sex

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    Very popular slashdot journal for adul
  2. Never mind the roots... by bourne · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's BB&N... er, GTEI... er, Genuity that's getting pounded. They provide caching DNS servers to the entire Internet at 4.2.2.1 (.2, ...) and because they're so easily memorizable, I've never met a sysadmin who didn't put them in a hosts' configuration in a pinch.