On Mon, 14 Aug 1995 13:02:33 PDT Dave Gomberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> One way to deal with Slaton and the like is to drop his provider
> from the MX servers, so that anyone who deals with him goes belly up.
> I would bet that the ISPs would get real tough real quick.
 
Dave, please give the technical details of how this can be done.
 
If the ISP operates their own DNS (Domain Name Service) servers,
then the MX-records for their hosts are *only* in *their* database.
 
Whenever I ask my DNS servers, they claim that they are not
"authoritative" for the ISP's domain, and then they forward the
quest to the ISP's DNS, since those DNS servers *are* authoritative
for their domain.
 
The answers get relayed back to my DNS servers,
and the IP-addresses are used.
 
I can't see how to "break" this "distributed-environment" process.
 
Please elaborate.