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Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones
From: Jay Hennigan <jay () west net>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 11:31:28 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Matt Larson wrote:
VeriSign was directed by ICANN to suspend the Site Finder service by 0100 UTC on Sunday, October 5.
This is not true. Verisign was not instructed to suspend the Site Finder service. Verisign, Google, Yahoo, Altavista, etc. were not instructed to suspend any form of site finder or search engine service. If you operate a good site finder, people will use it. Verisign WAS instructed to remove wildcard entries in .com and .net which pointed to Verisign's service (and broke several things in the process).
We requested an extension from ICANN to give more notice to the community but were denied.
Which community? The community to which you gave no notice before implementing it? The community which has been calling for it to go away ASAFP from the instant it appeared?
We will be removing the wildcard A records from the .com and .net zones beginning at 2300 UTC on Saturday, October 4. The former behavior for these zones (returning Name Error/RCODE=3 in response to queries for nonexistent domain names) will be in place by 0100 UTC on Sunday, October.
Thank you. The sooner the better. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Administration - jay () west net WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323 WB6RDV NetLojix Communications, Inc. - http://www.netlojix.com/
Current thread:
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones, (continued)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Peter Galbavy (Oct 04)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Mark Vallar (Oct 04)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Suresh Ramasubramanian (Oct 04)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Peter Galbavy (Oct 04)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Petri Helenius (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Ryan Dobrynski (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Adam Kujawski (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Tom (UnitedLayer) (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Brian Bruns (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones E.B. Dreger (Oct 03)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Hank Nussbacher (Oct 04)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Jay Hennigan (Oct 04)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Brian Bruns (Oct 05)
- Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 05)