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 --=20 "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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