RE: Re: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND releases new

["Rick Kingslan" <rkingsla () cox net>]

Folks,

With total and complete respect for those offended by the morons at
Verisign, or the merely amused - 

I really wish that I had your problems if this is the biggest bitch of the
day....  I'll gladly trade.

;o>

-rtk

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Jose Nazario
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 4:19 PM
To: Thor Larholm
Cc: list () dshield org; bugtraq () securityfocus com; NTBugtraq;
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Subject: [Full-disclosure] Re: Verisign abusing .COM/.NET monopoly, BIND
releases new

a number of options exist to help you remedy this issue:

        - bind 9.2.3rc2 supports "delegation-only", stopping some
          wildcard implementations from making any difference

if you simply want to stop traffic getting there (they are running a website
and a partially functional MTA on that IP):

        - you can BGP null route this
          http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg13715.html

        - cisco's NBAR functionality may be used to detect and block those
          reply packets from coming in by looking for the response from
          the nameservers.
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121newft/121
limit/121e/121e2/nbar2e.htm

note that this wont stop the query from reaching verisign, it will just stop
you from going to that IP. however, for some enforcing network privacy
concerns, that may be worthwhile.

hope this helps,

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jose nazario, ph.d.                     jose () monkey org
                                        http://monkey.org/~jose/

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