incrediBILL - 12:09 am on May 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

Restricting freedom of vast majority of law abiding citizens just because a minority does this stuff is very wrong IMO

Normally I would agree with you but in this case the vast majority of normal law abiding citizens, including webmasters, don't know what a free dynamic DNS subdomain is in the first place, will never use one and with %99.99999999 likelihood never need to use one.

I'm not even saying that dynamic DNS is bad, just the free dynamic subdomains used by the botnets.

Most people either have a domain, or a subdomain on some service, but not a dynamic DNS subdomain that can be easily pointed from server to server, nor do they need one, which is the exploit the botnets are using on these services that are typically employed only for black hat or hacker purposes in the first place. Please don't argue what we need DYNAMIC DNS because that's not what this is about, it's about randomly created subdomains on dynamic DNS which we simple don't need.

Most people can afford a $9 domain for a year and don't need random IP location because most people aren't trying to hide from the people trying to stop them from infecting machines, spamming or worse. However, if you want to relocate your domain from ISP to ISP quickly you'll still have dynamic DNS available, just not those FREE dynamic subdomains so no harm, not foul, except the current massive botnets are shut down.

Heck, what next, should we go back to running open relay on all our SMTP servers so spammers can send spam freely using our servers?

I don't think so, and free dynamic DNS subdomains is the DNS equivalent of open relays on SMTP servers which is bad for everyone and are currently being exploited by spammers, the same spammers that would exploit open relay on SMTP servers.

I hope I'm not hearing that people are in favor of spam because that's the only thing that free dynamic DNS subdomains are good for is spam!

[edited by: incrediBILL at 12:16 am (utc) on May 6, 2008]