Some stuff I found around... ---------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A996-2003Sep12.html ... The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the Internet's addressing system and oversees addressing companies like VeriSign, had no comment on the VeriSign plan. ... --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.iab.org/Documents/icann-vgrs-response.html IAB = A committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ... The first response is a misuse of the 404 response code as described in RFC 2616, section 10.4.5; an application level error like 404 is not a replacement for the DNS-level NXDOMAIN. ... To restore the data integrity and predictability of the DNS infrastructure, the IAB believes it would be best to return the .com and .net TLD servers to the behavior specified by the DNS protocols. ... --------------------------------------------------------------- PS: I've disabled resolutions match the wildcard TLD .com and .net in our dns caches. Will swiss majors follow this too? (you should ;)) Pascal ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
