Thursday, January 17, 2008

Some DNS Requests Ruled Illegal in North Dakota

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 17, @07:53AM
from the that's-a-paddling dept.
jgreco writes "A judge in North Dakota has just ruled that requesting a zone transfer from a public DNS server is criminal activity within the meaning of the North Dakota Computer Crimes Law. A zone transfer is a simple request that a DNS server hand over information in bulk, and a DNS server may be configured to allow or deny such requests. That the owner of a DNS server would configure the server to allow such requests, and then claim such requests were unauthorized, is simply stunning."

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