1000 localhosts in DNS

[Dan Wing]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6-ops-bounces+dwing=cisco.com at lists.cluenet.de [mailto:ipv6-
> ops-bounces+dwing=cisco.com at lists.cluenet.de] On Behalf Of Ryan Rawdon
> Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 2:05 PM
> To: Ryan Rawdon
> Cc: ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de; admin at cis.uni-muenchen.de
> Subject: Re: 1000 localhosts in DNS
> 
> Some time in the past week or two GoDaddy corrected this.  I'm curious
> how many of the 1,000,000 domains originally polled now have their AAAA
> record of ::1 pulled.

http://banjo.employees.org/~dwing/aaaa-stats.html shows 31 (0.292%) with ::1
on 2011-07-05 (today), versus 97 (1.218%) on 2011-06-22 (a couple of weeks 
ago).  The offending FQDNs can be seen by clicking through.

Looks like a pretty good change!

-d

 
>
> On Jun 23, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Ryan Rawdon wrote:
> 
> > I noticed this the other day with a bunch of domains that my employer
> has parked with GoDaddy.  They control the DNS for parked domains and
> return an AAAA of ::1 for all parked domains.   I called to ask them to
> remove this for our parked domains and they insisted that it doesn't
> cause a problem and added that the record can't be removed as they
> return the same answers for all parked domains.
> >
> > (My request is currently pending escalation with another group after
> the frontline and a tech he spoke to insisted that this was intentional
> and correct behavior)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jun 21, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Thomas Schäfer wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> some discussions about ipv6- brokeness on client-site become
> obsolete as long
> >> on (web)server-site some people make bad jokes.
> >>
> >> From 1 0000 000 tested sites 1 000 have ::1 in AAAA.
> >>
> >> What should be done?
> >> Hoping somebody reads the list and removes his entries?
> >> Does it make sense to search all webmasters and contact them?
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Thomas
> >>
> >>
> >> PS: over 90% of the list-entries are also hosted at 68.178.232.143,
> whois says
> >> "GoDaddy"
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> There’s no place like ::1
> >>
> >> Thomas Schäfer (Systemverwaltung)
> >> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
> >> Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung
> >> Schellingstraße 10 Raum J407A
> >> 80799 München ☎ +49/89/2180-9706  ℻ +49/89/2180-9701
> >> <list-AAAA-localhost-sorted.txt.zip>
> >