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From: oleary@noc.sura.net (dave o'leary)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: bad .edu records from jackson state
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.034854.2720@noc.sura.net>
Date: 2 Apr 91 03:48:54 GMT
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In article <1991Apr2.030514.24496@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
>>Is anything being done about these bogus NS records for "edu"?
>
>>As of Monday April 1(!!) 11:30 CST we are STILL seeing these bogus
>>records.  They are clogging up mail and generally making like rather
>>uncomfortable for us.
>

We have called the people at Jackson State and let them know about the 
problem, and we are prepared to help them fix it - however they have been 
on break last week through today and we haven't found the right person 
to talk to who can fix the problem.

We'll try again tomorrow to get things fixed there, however everyone
should recognize that once a problem like this is injected into the 
system it can sometimes last for quite a while.  (Incidentally, the
reason we are helping to deal with this is because JSU is a SURAnet
site.)

A couple of comments on the situation - first, it is not a good thing
that a site's misconfiguration can screw things up so badly.
Supporting efforts to improve bind, etc. and encouraging everyone to
run up to date software are noble activities.  Also, the documentation 
on how to set up this stuff correctly (hints on what to do and what 
*not* to do) should be more accessable (do they exist at all?).

Thanks for your support!

					dave