DNS complaint

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

Can someone point out the problems in our DNS maps?

	Bruce

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:25:32 -0800
To: Bowman@NET.ORG, Diktas@BHS.ORG, Perens@RAHUL.NET, ahoward@HALCYON.COM,
        andresyv@CERF.NET, burt@MAIL.IEEE.ORG, cathy@SERVER.NYBC.ORG,
        disrael@SIRTI.ORG, dmuat@ESO.ORG, fitzgerald@TCM.ORG,
        franco.rinaudo@EI.JRC.IT, help@I-CONNECT.NET, herber@ANDY.BGSU.EDU,
        hostinfo@psi.com, hostmaster@DNS.IEEE.ORG, hostmaster@NETLINK.CO.UK,
        ir000502@MINDSPRING.COM, jreddy@LIGHTNING.NET, jschwarz@ESO.ORG,
        manes@PIMS.ORG, ml@ML.ORG, netadmin@ML.ORG, noc@CAIS.COM,
        ph@C-SPAN.ORG, redhead@LIGHTNING.NET, rob@SITECONNECT.COM,
        smcewen@BGNET.BGSU.EDU
From: "Rusty H. Hodge, Sysadmin" <rusty@org.org>
Subject: You have misconfigured nameservers. Please fix.
Cc: jory@org.org

hi-

You are receiving this message because you are a tech or admin contact for
a domain that is mis-configured.

I am the sysadmin for 'org.org', and in the process on tracking down some
performance problems here, I've noticed that we get tons of traffic from
your site(s) looking for yourdomain.org.org instead of yourdomain.org.

The domains that have these problems are:

agony.org
arbornet.org
bhs.org
cspan.org
debian.org
eso.org
eudra.org
gsh.org
ieee.org
joshi.org
ml.org
net.org
nybc.org
path.org
pims.org
sirti.org
wcnet.org
youth.org

The particular requests we have seen *today* are:


ac3.hq.eso.org.org
acadia.joshi.org.org
acj.hq.eso.org.org
craterlake.joshi.org.org
edi-station.etoit.eudra.org.org
glacier.joshi.org.org
infodev.ieee.org.org
iris.nybc.org.org
lambda.youth.org.org
lassen.joshi.org.org
lilac.sirti.org.org
lists.debian.org.org
lists.debian.org.sirti.org.org
lists.debian.sirti.org.org
m-net148.arbornet.org.org
mail.wcnet.org.org
mc11.hq.eso.org.org
mc12.hq.eso.org.org
mc14.hq.eso.org.org
mm0.hq.eso.org.org
nfs1.hq.eso.org.org
nfs2.hq.eso.org.org
nfs3.hq.eso.org.org
ns1.hq.eso.org.org
olympia.joshi.org.org
opus1.hq.eso.org.org
path2963.path.org.org
pims-078.dev.pims.org.org
relay.etoit.eudra.org.org
relay.moon.nybc.org.org
relay.nybc.org.org
ruebert.ieee.org.org
sequoia.joshi.org.org
serv1.hq.eso.org.org
serv10.hq.eso.org.org
serv11.hq.eso.org.org
serv3.hq.eso.org.org
serv6.hq.eso.org.org
serv8.hq.eso.org.org
smoky.joshi.org.org
st2.hq.eso.org.org
stdsbbs.ieee.org.org
stdspub.ieee.org.org
web1.hq.eso.org.org
web3.hq.eso.org.org
web4.hq.eso.org.org
whois.internic.net.org.org
ws1.hq.eso.org.org
ws2.hq.eso.org.org
ws4.hq.eso.org.org
ws8.hq.eso.org.org
www.cspan.org.org
www.hq.eso.org.org
www.mxweb.ml.org.org
xx0.hq.eso.org.org
yosemite.joshi.org.org
zion.joshi.org.org

Hopefully this information will help you track this problem down. My guess
is that there is a mission trailing . in a reverse dns file someplace. If
you do not operate the reverse dns (in-addr.arpa) for your IP address
space, please forward this to your ISP or other responsible party.

Please fix this ASAP as it is putting a moderate load on our nameservers,
and they only have a small pipe. Over 80% of the load on our nameservers
comes from these mis-configured entries.

Thanks.

Rusty Hodge,
Sys Admin
organizatinal research group
org.org



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