[nsp-sec] What's up with *.footprint.net domains???

[White, Gerard]

Thanks for the insight... The problem we see here is we're getting
Queries towards our machinery for appended domains like:

www.msnbc.msn.com.c.footprint.net
global.msads.net.c.footprint.net

On a rather massive scale...

Weird...  Only appears to be Microsoft based domains that get this type
of treatment.

GW

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick W. Gilmore [mailto:patrick at akamai.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 6:19 PM
To: White, Gerard
Cc: Patrick W. Gilmore; nsp-security at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [nsp-sec] What's up with *.footprint.net domains???

On Mar 1, 2008, at 3:31 PM, White, Gerard wrote:

> Anybody have any background info about why we would get bombarded with
> queries for various *.footprint.net DNS RRs from our customer base?

Footprint.net is the domain for Digital Island, the CDN that Level3  
now owns.

Perhaps you at one time hosted boxes for Digital Island?  (It does not  
have to have anything to do with L3, since DI has been owned by  
several companies over time, including themselves, C&W, and Savvis.)

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TTFN,
patrick