[Sheflug] Re: [OT] DNS for .com and .net

[Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

> Apols for posting this, but it's worth being aware of this, espeically if
> you've mail servers to look after. Verisign (for it is them) have seen it
> fit to add a wildcard into the root DNS for .COM and .NET domains, so any
> invalid domain will now /resolve/, which means mail for invalid domains
> will head to Verisign before being bounced back with a 550 invalid domain
> message (so expect lots of double bounces in postmaster or Mailer-Daemon).


Some more about this.  One of the LUGs out in California was having
some discussion about this...


 Salon - "Thanks, VeriSign, for breaking the Internet"
  http://www.salon.com/tech/col/leon/2003/09/17/verisign/index_np.html

  The Register - "All your Web typos are belong to us"
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/32852.html

  CNET - "VeriSign redirects error pages"
  http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5077530.html

  ZDNet/Australia - "VeriSign slammed for helping spammers"
 
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/communications/story/0,2000048620,20278673,00.htm

  Slashdot - "Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards"
  http://slashdot.org/articles/03/09/16/0034210.shtml?mode=nocomment






Richard
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