-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Verisign yesterday added wildcard DNS records to all .com and .net domains - redirecting surfers who get lost on the Net to a search page, called Site Finder, run by the company. Those who type in non-existent addresses will also be served up Site Finder, instead of an error message.
So, Verisign has turned domain name typos into an advertising opportunity. This is an abuse of Verisign's role, via acquired company Network Solutions, in running the root DNS servers. "This breaks all sorts of things horribly. It makes it very difficult for mail servers to reject mail from invalid domains" "Even worse, if an MX record points to an invalid host name, that host will now resolve, the SMTP connection accepted and the mail then rejected. Because the rejection is a 550 error, that mail will not get retried *ever* again. If that MX was the highest priority mail server than all mail to that domain name will bounce" Already a backlash is building, with Net admins being urged to block Verisign's catch-all domain. this is bound to get very very messy. - -- all the things we keep inside, are the things that really matter, the face puts on its best disguise, and all is well, until the heart betrays. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/agAV7v3NbZTFJeIRAjsnAKDy4AEuXL+ALTS5i1H6HFKNapVMNgCbBLEi DJciB5O7ak2/nqTrSuIa+Eg= =kNXL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
