Illegal A record redirection

[Barry Finkel]

modi_assoc at hotmail.com (Nick Modi) wrote:

>There is outside website (one which we do not own and do not have any
>control) is using DNS A record to redirect traffic to our website.
>They are using following format.
>
>Domain  mp3.xyz.com 
>Type A
>Class IN
>Answer Our IP address
>
>We would like to prevent this. Is there a way to prevent it? We have
>tried sending email to register of the website without any luck. FYI,
>we don't have any mp3 on our site but other site is swamping our site
>with these illegal requests and shutting down our server in the
>process.
>
>Any help/direction would be appreciated.

If you are running on a Unix box, you can blackhole the IP address that
is sending the packets to your machine.
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