Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: enabling zone transfer and disabling nslookup's ls Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 23:25:16 GMT References: <9105271644.AA20710@tsx-11.MIT.EDU> <9105291302.AA04129@sayshell.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: MSEN, Inc. Ann Arbor MI Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: louie@SAYSHELL.UMD.EDU's message of 29 May 91 13:02:00 GMT In article <9105291302.AA04129@sayshell.umd.edu> louie@SAYSHELL.UMD.EDU ("Louis A. Mamakos") writes: We had to disable zone transfers on TERP.UMD.EDU, which is one of the root name servers. It was getting beat to death by some creatins which performed zone transfers quite frequently. Is the raw data that's in the root servers available by some other means, like anonymous FTP for instance? I've found it quite handy to get a dump of (e.g.) the .com root servers, but if there's a less cretinous way of doing it I'd be happy to do so. -- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com "often those with the power to appoint will be on one side of a controversial issue and find it convenient to use their opponent's momentary stridency as a pretext to squelch them"