Re: macomnet weird dns record

[Colin Johnston <colinj () gt86car org uk>]

costs more money in long term not fixing the bad traffic as have to spend more for transit

doing the bother and fixing the problem is best practice

Colin




> Chinese don't bother for multiply reasons, same probably apply to
> Russian part net, cheap Internet access. So when you asking them to fix
> bad traffic coming from home user they don't bother do anything with it
> as it cost money for them.
>
> On 14/04/15 17:00, Colin Johnston wrote:
> > Hi Nikolay, I have obvious hit a cultural nerve here, if so I am sorry.
> > At least there is communication on some level, Chinese colleagues would not even bother to respond to aid debug.
> >
> > Be that as it may, why not use either normal decimal numbers or normal characters to show what a normal person would 
> > understand instead of having to convert the shown output ?
> >
> > Colin
> >
> >
> > > On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:54, Nikolay Shopik <shopik () inblock ru> wrote:
> > >
> > > Are Roman numerals allowed in DNS? Because I know some people also do them.
> > >
> > > dig -x 217.199.208.190
> > >
> > >
> > > On 14/04/15 16:45, Chuck Church wrote:
> > > > Comic Book Guy would probably declare:
> > > >
> > > > "Worst Naming Convention Ever"
> > > >
> > > > Chuck
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Colin Johnston
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:27 AM
> > > > To: Nikolay Shopik
> > > > Cc: <nanog () nanog org>
> > > > Subject: Re: macomnet weird dns record
> > > >
> > > > Because looks strange especially if the traffic is 100% bad Best practice
> > > > says avoid such info in records as does not aid debug since mix of dec and
> > > > hex 
> > > >
> > > > Colin
> > > >
> > > > > On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:09, Nikolay Shopik <shopik () inblock ru> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > How its weird? All these chars allowed in DNS records.
> > > > >
> > > > > On 14/04/15 15:36, Colin Johnston wrote:
> > > > > > never saw hex in host dns records before.
> > > > > > host-242.strgz.87.118.199.240.0xfffffff0.macomnet.net
> > > > > >
> > > > > > range is blocked non the less since bad traffic from Russia network
> > > > ranges.
> > > > > > Colin