[Wylug-help] VeriSign Breaks DNS

[Jim Jackson]

ICANN have issued a statement on it calling on Verisign to volunterily
withdraw the wildcard (see towards end).....

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/secsac-to-board-22sep03.htm


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Jon Stockill wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Gavin Harris wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Verisign have gone and added a wildcard DNS entry for .com and .net TLD's: -
> >
> > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0034210
> >
> > What do people think?
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas on how to go about dealing with this, from
> > the mailserver view of things? Mine currently rejects any mail where the
> > sender has an nonexistent domain, but now all .com and .net domains
> > exist.....
>
> There are several options:
>
> 1. Reject where the A record points to verisign's server.
>
> 2. Fix your nameservers so they return NXDOMAIN instead of the A record
> for verisign's server.
>
> 3. (possibly the most amusing, but largely useless, as suggested on
> another list) Give verisign a call and tell them you don't agree with the
> T&C's of their search engine, and you'd be grateful if they'd stop
> returning address records to it :-)
>
> --
> Jon Stockill
> jon at stockill.org.uk
>
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