more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:36:47 -0400
From: Marc Aniballi <marcaniballi () hotmail com>
Subject: RE: [IP] more on VeriSign to revive redirect service
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To: 'Russell Nelson' <nelson () crynwr com>
Cc: dave () farber net

Thanks Russell;

I don't need it - I just blocked sitefinder on my firewall ;-).

It's funny though, I've gotten a dozen emails on the topic - your's was
the only constructive one!!

I hope David publishes your links below, so at least the activists in
the group can take action if they wish.

Regards,


Marc Aniballi

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Nelson [mailto:nelson () crynwr com]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:56 AM
To: dave () farber net
Cc: marcaniballi () hotmail com
Subject: Re: [IP] more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

Marc Aniballi writes:
 > >It occurs to me, that all Verisign has done is change the content of
the
 > >"Domain not found" error message. It would take little effort from
the
 > >dominant browser providers and/or core ISPs to simply "retranslate"
a
 > >redirect to the URL "sitefinder.com" into "Domain not found."

Marc, that's exactly what my patch to dnscache does.  It discards the
sitefinder IP address and replaces it with NXDOMAIN.  I published that
patch six hours after Verislime turned on sitefinder.  It's very easy
to use.  Just install dnscache
(http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/djbdns-1.05.tar.gz),
patch it with http://tinydns.org/djbdns-1.05-ignoreip2.patch, and
follow the instructions in the patch file.

Even if you're running BIND for your authoritative records, it's easy
to replace its caching function with dnscache.

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