Re: WARNING: AOL is hosed (again)

[Blake Willis <blakew () cais net>]

Of course, these measures can only help but so much if your hostmaster
blindly acks every peice of NIC mail that comes his way... 

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Blake Willis                                            703-448-4470x483
Network Engineer, New Customers                         blakew () cais net
CAIS Internet, a CGX Communications Company
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Phillip Vandry wrote:

> > > If yes to my second question, then the tracking numbers either need to be
> > > made much longer and randomized or a one time pass phrase (session key) 
> > > needs to be added to the acknowlegement form. 
> >
> > You can actually set a domain name so that it cannot be changed, by
> > any template, by any modification, correct guardian or NOT.
>
> Sounds like a nonreversible setting to me. What if you need to change it?
>
> Anyway, I think that by default, the update goes through automatically,
> a positive acknoledgement is ignored (default behaviour) and a negative
> acknowledgement is honored. (Which means AOL should have been able to
> stop it).
>
> Then there is the setting where the update will not go through by default,
> and a positive acknowledgement is required.
>
> As to whether it all works as advertized (and PGP auth too?), who knows?
>
> -Phil