Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:09:31 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Michael Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any workarounds for Verisign .com/.net highjacking? Message-ID: <XFMail.20030916210931.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <20030917022030.GE84494@wombat.localnet>
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On 17-Sep-2003 Michael Edenfield wrote: > * John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> [030916 21:27]: > >> True, we could probably do it. I guess we'd have to generate a few >> random and unlikely queries, try them, and see if all/most of them >> resolve to the same address. Or maybe the to the same small set of >> addresses, depending on how determined Verisign is to make this work. > > "*.net" should work, since they basically added a * A record to .com and > .net. Yep, that should work. >> I just _love_ how Verisign doesn't even have a reverse DNS record for >> that address. Jerks. > > root@basement:/usr/src# host 64.94.110.11 > 11.110.94.64.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer sitefinder-idn.verisign.com When I wrote the above, "host 64.94.110.11" didn't return anything. John
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