and just how does what you describe deal with a personal network behind someone's firewall... go back and re-read what i typed!!! i was basicaly saying there's no law that prevents you from calling the machines behind your firewall whatever you want. but that if you try to put dns servers on the public net, that try to resolve already used names to your machine (or someone else's) then you're going to get blasted... so, i still say, where's this law for private networks??? -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On Behalf Of RobertH Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 5:40 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: RE: [CentOS] Changing hostname? > > just what law would that be. me thinks you're making this one up!!!! > Well, let's see, I'll bet you know all this... How about electronic identity theft at various different levels? If you are a really big ISP, you could do a DNS denial of service by making your nameservers authoritative for a domain or domains you do not own and when it is found out go Oops, our bad. Did we make a typo in our dns? Can do same thing with BGP4... How about setup systems to spoof domains and spam from them? Etc snore ad nausem - rh _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos