On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:04:17PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > Agreed. but it wouldn't be too hard to determine at boot/hourly doing > a bogus query to find the address of the moment. Even they would be > hard pressed to change things more than hourly.
In the document VeriSign distributes on the *.com spam portal, titled Site Finder Developer's Guide (an entertaining read): http://sitefinder.verisign.com/pdf/sitefinderdevguide.pdf they describe the procedure for applications to determine if a match is the result of an actual domain record or the wildcard. This consists of comparing the returned address to the record for *.com. If the resolver could cache this value, it would be easy to keep up with VeriSign's current canonical spam host: % host -t a \*.com *.com has address 64.94.110.11 -- || Seth Kingsley || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || http://www.meowfishies.com/ | Meow ^_^ ||
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