[Asrg] Final(?) draft of DNSwL draft

Barry Shein bzs at world.std.com
Tue Jul 31 01:19:33 EDT 2007


Far be it for me to flog a dead horse but aren't you two speaking past
each other? Unreliable isn't the same as insecure.

That said, I don't think one generally needs to repeat something like
that in a context like this; it should be tacit.

On July 29, 2007 at 02:04 asrg at johnlevine.com (John Levine) wrote:
 > >The use of DNSWLs to override any DNSBLs (or other criteria, also in
 > >a scoring mechanism) is only as reliable as the underlying transport
 > >mechanism (ie unreliable for DNS-over-UDP, especially over non-local
 > >links).
 > 
 > It already says that they're subject to the usual DNS attacks.  I don't
 > see the point of adding this disclaimer.
 > 
 > R's,
 > John
 > 
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