jgreco writes "A judge in North Dakota has just ruled that requesting a zone transfer from a public DNS server is criminal activity within the meaning of the North Dakota Computer Crimes Law. A zone transfer is a simple request that a DNS server hand over information in bulk, and a DNS server may be configured to allow or deny such requests. That the owner of a DNS server would configure the server to allow such requests, and then claim such requests were unauthorized, is simply stunning.
I would have to agree that the judge probably has no idea what is going on here, or when the actual charges are for. Why would you want to do a zone transfer on someone else's domain anyhow? I have to say it can seem a bit suspicious to people who don't understand why this would be done. I wish the article had more detail about what domain he looked up and why. It might have shed some more light on the whole case.
Well... (Score:1)