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   Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 05:13:24 JST Chris Siebenmann

   We used to operate one of the university's authoritative secondary DNS servers for all of the university's domains. Many years ago, we ceased doing this, reducing the server to just being authoritative for our own domains. Today I learned that there are a lot of people on the Internet still querying us for other people's domains that we haven't been NS records for for years. Where are they picking this up from? It is a mystery.

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     Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 05:13:24 JST Chris Siebenmann

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     Bonus: some of the people still querying our DNS server for domains we aren't authoritative for appear to be (other people's) within-university DNS servers. All I can say is WHAT.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 05:15:06 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @cks I guess some bad DNS configuration that was there for historical reasons, possibly ages ago as a "temporary" workaround.