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Re: blocking IP ranges from querying tinydns

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Subject: Re: blocking IP ranges from querying tinydns
From: Mike Jackson <mj@sci.fi>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 01:12:53 +0300
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Dean Anderson wrote:
> It was decided a long time ago that DNS data is public knowledge.  
> Cyveillance is doing nothing wrong by monitoring the public web pages
> and this obviously means querying the DNS servers for those web sites.  
> Other search engines do the same.

The question was purely technical, not philosophical. I don't want these
people monitoring my networks and I am out to stop them in the most
fundamental of ways. End of discussion.

Anyhow, I thank John for his answer. Yes, it seems the router or
firewall is the best place to lock out Cyveillance, and locked out they
shall be.

--
mike



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