Sept. 30, 2008
12:36 p.m.
urge that it focus precisely on whether and how one might distinguish between abusive and benign uses of fast-flux techniques.
As far as I can tell, there aren't any benign uses of fast flux, which should make this straightforward to address at the registry level. There are certainly legitimate reasons to return DNS results that vary over time, as Akamai does to distribute the web server load for its clients, but you don't do it by fast flux. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.