RE: NetReg: CommonName

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From: PNIXON@ci.somerville.ma.us
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 14:15:08 CDT

If someone has a file with the instructions, can it be put in the contrib
directory?

--Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Valian [mailto:valianp@southwestern.edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:23 PM
To: netreg@southwestern.edu
Subject: Re: NetReg: CommonName

Oh. Hmmm...NetReg should work fine...commonname.com will resolve to the
netreg box and find2.asp will trigger the 404 redirect.

It does look like it may interfere with other campus web services. In
any case, we don't tollerate any spyware (passive or active) and will
probably do the redirect that Radford Univ is doing.

Thanks Mike.
-p

King, Michael wrote:
> Very true, I should have been more specific. It's not intialiating a DNS
> request on port 53, It's passing it via a ASP script hosted on the
> http://www.commonname.com/find2.asp.
>
> I first noticed it when I troubleshot a students computer, whatever
address
> I typed in the address bar, it tried to contact www.commenname.com
instead.
> I ended up having to uninstall the program commonname to get it to work.
> (Of course there is no easy uninstall program, you have to goto the
program
> files folder, into the commonname folder, and run the uninstall program
from
> there)
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Valian [mailto:valianp@southwestern.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:11 PM
> To: netreg@southwestern.edu
> Subject: Re: NetReg: CommonName
>
>
> I would recommend not allowing users to use off-campus DNS, IMHO.
> It's port 53...tcp and udp.
>
> We do not allow it and have not allowed it for serveral years. Have
> never had a complaint. If a user asks if they can use an off-campus DNS
> server, I'd be suspicious.
>
> Sometimes we become authoritative for domains we'd rather not have
> students go to (i.e. napster.com)...those were the days before good
> bandwidth management tools. That effectively broke any clients trying
> to connect to whatever.napster.com.
>
> -p
> 

-- 
Peter Valian
Network & Systems Administrator
Southwestern University
Georgetown, Texas
512.863.1586 office
512.863.1605 fax
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