full-disclosure - Why Block Mail-archive.com?

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Message-Id: <8492B7E3-E54C-4E5F-BFB1-240DDB1A1841@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:12:56 +0300
From: Sabahattin Gucukoglu <mail@...ahattin-gucukoglu.com>
To: hostmaster@...kcell.com.tr
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, gossip@....org
Subject: Why Block Mail-archive.com?

What have mail-archive.com done to you that you must block them in DNS, by setting up an empty authority zone for it?

Sabahattin-Gucukoglus-MacBook-Air:~ sgucukoglu$ host -v -t a www.mail-archive.com.
Trying "www.mail-archive.com"
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21593
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.mail-archive.com.		IN	A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
www.mail-archive.com.	86400	IN	SOA	ns2.turkcell.com.tr. hostmaster.turkcell.com.tr. 2007072901 7200 3600 2419200 86400

Received 104 bytes from 188.59.246.11#53 in 436 ms
Sabahattin-Gucukoglus-MacBook-Air:~ sgucukoglu$ 

Yes, using another DNS server works, only it turns out there's no UI on the iPhone to change the DNS servers used while on 3G.  Bloody thing.

Cheers,
Sabahattin

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