bedbugsmotel.co.uk

Two TXT records filled entirely with the letter A

$ dig TXT bedbugsmotel.co.uk

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;bedbugsmotel.co.uk. IN TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:

bedbugsmotel.co.uk. 3600 IN TXT "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... [Second record, also just letter A,…"

What Happened

bedbugsmotel.co.uk has two massive DNS TXT records containing nothing but hundreds of repeated letter A characters. This is almost certainly the result of a broken automated provisioning script — a developer testing the character limit of their DNS provider's API — that accidentally pushed to production and was never cleaned up.

Full TXT Record Value

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

[Second record, also just letter A, repeated ~200 times]