full-disclosure - Re: Again: zone transfers, a spammer's dream?

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Message-ID: <20050106203715.GA21436@wolff.to>
From: bruno at wolff.to (Bruno Wolff III)
Subject: Re: Again: zone transfers, a spammer's dream?

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 17:32:33 +0100,
  Ralf Glauberman <ralfglauberman@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> so, here comes the old question: What do you think about this?

The main problem with allowing zone transfers by anyone is that it makes
denial of service attacks against the dns server easier.

I don't see other people having access to the data as a bad thing.