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Re: nameserver stats



Yup, BT=BitTorrent.    I don't know the sites by personal experience,
they just seemed to have BT like names.  Strange that there's such a
correspondence, but it isn't particular to your server -- I replicated
your results on a handful of tests, from both my exit and a local
non-tor IP.  Perhaps these are domains that have been shutdown via
court order or over zealous domain registrars?  Still, I'd think
people would stop trying to connect to them after a bit, but
trackedbyet.info is the 6th most popular DNS name, and it doesn't
resolve!


On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Olaf Selke <olaf.selke@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dyno Tor wrote:
>> Interesting.  Olaf, I notice BT destinations seem mapped to nxdomain
>> or servfail.
>
> BT stands for BitTorrent, right?
>
>> Do you do this purposely to reduce abuse reports, or is
>> that done by your upstream provider?
>
> neither, the nameserver running on this machine does caching only
> knowing nothing but the root servers from its config. So there's no
> upstream provider's ns used. I can't explain the nxdomain and servfail
> mapping.
>
> Olaf
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