It's all about getting spam email to users faster. US government was doing
good when they said that you can mass advertize as long as you include
instructions for list removal (which most advertisers don't adhere to
anyway), but most that do don't include a legit way (most are non-existant
accounts). In short, make sure you're on top of the updates for everything
on your system... if you updated it 12 hours ago, it could be outdated :)
Lamers work that fast, you know.

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Ed Lazor wrote:

> Hi =)
>
> This was in my logs:
>
> Feb 22 21:12:41 arcane named[2342]: denied AXFR from [205.166.226.38].4781
> for "atfantasy.com" (acl)
>
> After searching the archives and reading a message from Ramon (copied
> below), I'm a little curious.  Is it still safe to ignore this log
> entry?  Also, why would having a list of the machines in my domain be
> helpful to companies trying to market and advertise stuff?
>
> Thanks =)
>
> -Ed
>
>
> ----------------------
> There may be nothing amiss. It will give you that report whether the AXFR
> succeeded or not. I discovered this. One way to test is from telnet from a
> box on your hosts.deny list.
>
> You will see the connection flagged, but there is no way to determine if it
> succeeded from the logs. Of course, from the telnet box you can see that
> you were dumped.
>
> It is poor logging: it would be much more meaningful if the entry read
> something like: "attempted AXFR denied". By the way, what this is...its
> marketing companies, and spammers trying to get your DNS database so they
> can market and advertise stuff. They use automatic DNS fetchers to do that.
>
>
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