emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) (06/28/91)
> script to find anonymous FTP sites in 1989 got jjones@cs.uiuc.edu in > trouble; it FTP'd to a list of internet sites ending in ".com" to > see if those sites allowed anonymous FTP. As I remember, the state of the art in 1989 of finding anonymous FTP sites was pretty bad. There was no "archie", comp.archives was not running up to speed, and what was left was a couple of attempts at compiling an anonymous FTP site list (doomed to failure because there was no effective verification). x.500 stuff was just not there (not that they're much of any use now). Brute force was an appropriate technology, and I'd almost argue that it's not completely inappropriate now, I'd say that if you ran a script now that walked down the nameservers for *.com and looked for A and CNAME records for sites like "ftp.mighty.com", you'd be doing a reasonable bit of network research. You'd catch cisco, solbourne, tcs, apple, vitalink, and cayman, that I'm aware of. There might be others. You wouldn't actually have to do any FTP'ing at all, just name server traffic. (in fact, banging around a little bit, I find an "ftp.mips.com" which has reasonable stuff, so I think you'd find a lot of these.) "abuse" means you didn't write a proposal and get grant money, otherwise it's "research". -- Edward Vielmetti, MSEN Inc. moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com "often those with the power to appoint will be on one side of a controversial issue and find it convenient to use their opponent's momentary stridency as a pretext to squelch them"
emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) (06/29/91)
In article <EMV.91Jun27180850@bronte.aa.ox.com> emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
I'd say that if you ran a script now that walked down the nameservers
for *.com and looked for A and CNAME records for sites like
"ftp.mighty.com", you'd be doing a reasonable bit of network research.
The results of this network research:
ftp.3Com.COM. 120 CNAME gatekeeper.3Com.COM.
ftp.APPLE.COM. 93918 CNAME bric-a-brac.apple.com.
ftp.CAYMAN.COM. 14400 A 143.137.50.5
ftp.CISCO.COM. 43200 CNAME dirt.cisco.com.
ftp.FTP.COM. 120 CNAME vax.ftp.com.
ftp.LGC.COM. 21600 CNAME guest.lgc.com.
ftp.MIPS.COM. 78084 CNAME spim.mips.com.
ftp.MMMG.COM. 43200 CNAME web.mmc.mmmg.com.
ftp.PACBELL.COM. 172800 CNAME ns.PacBell.COM.
ftp.POWERMINDS.COM. 86400 CNAME powerminds.com.
ftp.PSI.COM. 86400 CNAME uu.psi.com.
ftp.SOLBOURNE.COM. 172800 CNAME solbourne.Solbourne.COM.
ftp.SOPHIA.COM. 172800 CNAME java.SOPHIA.COM.
ftp.SPRINT.COM. 14400 A 35.1.1.62
ftp.STD.COM. 86400 CNAME world.std.com.
ftp.TCS.COM. 144546 CNAME titan.tcs.com.
ftp.TELEBIT.COM. 33250 CNAME apache.telebit.com.
ftp.VITALINK.COM. 120 CNAME iggy.gw.vitalink.com.
ftp.XYLOGICS.COM. 86400 CNAME xylogics.com.
Looks pretty fruitful -- several of these are new to me.
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Edward Vielmetti, MSEN Inc. moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com
"abuse" means you didn't write a proposal and get grant money,
otherwise it's "research".