Re: [ga] .et wildcarded

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Dr. Joe and all,

  I believe what we have here is an argument centered in the
appropriateness of when and when not to use wildcarding.

  Ted made a good but not all inclusive point earlier on this
thread.  Does his point apply to .et?  I don't know for
a certanty, but as .et has been a troublesome ccTLD in the
past due mainly to poor DNS security, it would not be surprising
to me that .et being wildcarded was a half measure attempt
to thwart hackers.  Better, would have been to have DNSSEC
installed correctly. 

 From my own perspective, I have concern regarding the child
poronography spam I recieve and have been occasionally duped
into from .com domains.  In fact it has gotten rather serious.  

Regards,

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-----Original Message-----
>From: Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Nov 20, 2007 1:47 AM
>To: Ross Rader <ross@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> GA" 
><ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [ga] .et wildcarded
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>Ross Rader wrote:
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>> On 18-Nov-07, at 9:17 PM, Joe Baptista wrote:
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>>> Wildcards in fact are a good thing from the dns perspective.  They  
>>> reduce overall traffic to the zone.
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>> That's ridiculous.
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>> Who says reducing traffic to the zone is a good thing?
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>reducing error is always good
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>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/05/dud_queries_swamp_us_internet/
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>a 98% error rate is not good.
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>cheers
>joe baptista
>
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>> Ross Rader
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>> "To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow."
>> - Erik Nupponen
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