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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:47:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The net fights back
Message-ID:  <20030919204626.R33621-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030919165147.0294fb00@localhost>

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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 09:06 AM 9/19/2003, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>
> >At least one major .no ISP have patched their name server to disregard
> >Verisign's wildcard entry
>
> We firewalled their addresses immediately and are installing the
> latest BIND 9 on all our servers to block their mischief.
>
> I'd love to see a version of BIND with a hack to block top level
> wildcards go into the next releases on the -CURRENT and -STABLE
> branches.

This would break other TLDs that have validly been using wildcards since
inception.  There is no violation of RFC on Verisign's part, merely public
trust.

Jamie Bowden

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"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold"
Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>




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