From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 17:00:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FBDC16A4DC for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blake.polstra.com (mail.polstra.com [206.213.73.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A85643FF2 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:00:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from strings.polstra.com (strings.polstra.com [206.213.73.20]) by blake.polstra.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8H00PZj068563; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:00:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030916.175558.10083602.imp@bsdimp.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:00:25 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra To: "M. Warner Losh" X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.500552, version=0.14.5 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: cliftonr@lava.net cc: dan@langille.org Subject: Re: Any workarounds for Verisign .com/.net highjacking? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:00:31 -0000 On 16-Sep-2003 M. Warner Losh wrote: > I think we should put a filter for this nonsense into the base > system. Hack the resolve to filter out the adddress, and hack bind to > filter it out too. that way we can leverage our position in the name > servers in the world to do something about this BS. I think so too, in principle. But we need something better than a hard-coded IP address. It would take Verisign about an hour to figure out they need to change the address frequently. (Well, OK, a day ... it's Verisign, after all.) John